Though Women Remain Severely UnderrepreprepreSented in the Aerospace Field Worldwide, They do Regularly Escape the Earth’s Atmosphere. More than 100 Have Gone to Space Sally Ride Became The First American Woman to Do So in 1983. If an All-Women Spaceflight Wreed by, Say, Nasa, It Might Take the Culmination of Many Decades of Serious Investment in Female Astronauts. (In 2019, Nasa Was embarrassingly forced to scuttle an all-wmen spacewalk when it realized it Did not have enfungh suits that.) An all-wmen Blue Origin SpaceFlight Means Only That Several Women have amassed the Social to Be Friend.
Blue Origin is one of Several Private SpaceFlight Companies – Among Them Virgin Galactic, Space Adventures and Spacex – Now Offering Rich People and Their Friends Access to Space. Its New Shepard Rocket is self-piloting, and the six Women Had no Technical Duties on the Flight. Though Two TWO Participants Had Some Aerospace Experience (Bowe Worked for Nasa, and Nyugen Interior), Sánchez Has Said She Picked They all because they are “Storytellers” who Could Step Off The Flight and Promote Their Experiences Through Journalism, Film and Song. To Blue Origin, Their Value Lies Expressly in Their Amateurism. Kristin Fisher, a journalist and the Daughter of the Nasa Astronaut Anna Lee Fisher, Who Joined the Livestream, Called the Flight’s Roster “So Refreshing.” In the Early Days of Human Spaceflight, Astronauts “Were All White Male Military Test Pilots, and they had to have ‘the right stuff.’ You Could Never Talk about Nerves, or Being Nervous, or Your Feelings, ”Fisher Said. “But now, in 2025, it is The Right Stuff. ”
Sánéné Arranged for her favorite fashion designers to craft the mission’s suits, leveraging it into another branding opportunity. Souvenirs of the Flight Sold On Blue Origin’s Website Feature A Kind of Yassified Shuttle Patch Design. It includes A Shooting-Star Microphone Representing King, An Exploding Firework Representing Perry and A Fly Representing Sánchez’s 2024 Children’s Book About the Adventures of A Dyslexic Insect. Each Woman was encouraged to use her oven minute of weightlessness to play different in-flight-tailored to her interests. Nguyen Planned to use them to conduct Two vanishingly Brief Science Experiment, One of Them related to menstruation, While Perry Pledged to “Put the ‘Ass’ in Astronaut.”
The message is that a little girl can grow up to be whatever she wishes: a rocket scientist or a pop star, a television journalist or a billionaire’s fiancée who is empowered to pursue her various ambitions and whims in the face of tremendous costs. In each case, she stands to win a free trip to space. She can have it all, included a family back on earth. “Guess What?” Sánchez told her. “Moms go to space.” (Fisher, The First Mother in Space, Went there in 1984.)
The Whole Thing Reminds Me Of The Advice Sheryl Sandberg Pass On To Women in “Lean in,” Her Memoir of Scaling the Corporate Ladder in the Technology Industry. When Eric Schmidt, then the chief Executive of Google, Offered Sandberg A position that Did Not Align With Her Own Professional Goals, He Told Her: “If you are offered a Seat on a Rocket Ship, Don’t Ask What Seat.” It is the proximity to power that matters, not the goal of the mission Itself.
