The first all-female private flight into space funded by the Amazon tycoon\u2019s Blue Origin company has little to do with female empowerment and a lot to do with PR <\/p>\n
A pop star, a TV host and a billionaire\u2019s fianc\u00e9e walk into a private rocket ship. The pop star turns to the others and asks: \u201cIs this what feminism looks like?\u201d According to the space technology company Blue Origin, owned and founded by the Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos, the answer seems to be a resounding yes.<\/p>\n
On Thursday Blue Origin announced it would be launching the first-ever all-female commercial flight to space<\/a> with a crew of astronauts including US singer Katy Perry, the morning news host (\u2013 and close friend of Oprah Winfrey \u2013 Gayle King and Bezos\u2019s own partner, the journalist Lauren S\u00e1nchez, who reportedly organised the mission, which will happen sometime this spring.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first all-female private flight into space funded by the Amazon tycoon\u2019s Blue Origin company has little to do with female empowerment and a lot to do with PR A pop star, a TV host and a billionaire\u2019s fianc\u00e9e walk into a private rocket ship. The pop star turns to the others and asks: \u201cIs … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}