Astronaut Emily Calandrelli's Comments Go Viral, as She Gets Blasted for Her Hateful Words!
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Friday's mission was the ninth spaceflight conducted by Blue Origin on a rocket used for space tourism. The mission flew over the Kármán line - the boundary separating Earth's atmosphere from outer space - for a few minutes before returning to Earth.
Joining Calandrelli on board were Sharon Hagle, Marc Hagle, Austin Litteral, James (J.D.) Russell, and Henry (Hank) Wolfond. After landing safely at the Blue Origin launch site in West Texas, Calandrelli compared the experience of seeing Earth from space for the first time to that of becoming a mother.
"I immediately turned around and saw the planet and then there was so much space, and I kept saying, like, 'that's our planet!
"The same feeling I had when my children were born in the same place I saw it for the first time."
In June 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space, but it wasn't until 20 years later that another woman left Earth. Astronaut Sally K. Ride became the first American woman to visit space in June 1983.
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Calandrelli said she cried on the flight home from the mission because of the online backlash and texted her "space sisters" for advice.
When she got off the plane, Calandrelli said that a Southwest flight attendant recognized her and whispered, "don't let them fade your shine."
"I immediately felt a camaraderie with her, with all women," Calandrelli said.
