Jessica Alba is not here for the space hate. The Fantastic Four star and Honest Beauty boss just made it clear she's team Space Sisters Unite, and if you're looking to throw shade, she'd rather you aim it straight at Donald Trump. On Wednesday, Alba quietly but powerfully entered the chat via her Instagram Story, joining a fiery conversation that's been lighting up feeds since Monday's historic Blue Origin flight featuring an all-female crew.
In case you missed it, Katy Perry, Gayle King, Jeff Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sánchez, astronaut Amanda Nguyen, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn took off on an 11-minute voyage to space. It was a major moment: the first all-female crew since 1963. But instead of celebration, the mission got roasted online.
Critics labeled it everything from "frivolous" to "environmentally tone-deaf." Fast-food chains even chimed in. Celebs like Olivia Wilde threw shade. Emily Ratajkowski basically gave it a cosmic eye-roll. And Amy Schumer didn't hold back.
While most stars were busy dragging the mission, Alba had a different POV. She reposted political commentator Ana Navarro-Cárdenas' message, which basically said enough. "I've seen endless criticisms of five women doing their space thing," the post read. "I can't see how it affects our lives. I wish people would show the same energy & focus that anger towards fearlessly denouncing Trump's abuses of power, which do affect countless lives in the US and the world." Alba stamped the post with a big ol' "THIS," making it clear where she stands.
Let's not forget: Alba and Sánchez are tight, so it's not exactly surprising that she's one of the few celebs stepping up to defend the mission.
Meanwhile, Gayle King has officially had it with the haters. "Please don't call it a 'ride,'" she said, clearly annoyed. "No one called it a ride when Alan Shepard did the same thing. It was called a journey." King also addressed the eco-critics, reminding everyone that part of Blue Origin's mission is to explore whether we can send waste into space to help clean up Earth. "Space is not an either/or," she explained. "Because you do something in space, doesn't mean you're taking anything away from Earth."
It's hard not to notice the gendered energy around this whole thing. When dudes go to space, they're heroes. When women do it, suddenly, it's a waste of jet fuel. "There was nothing frivolous about what we did… what it's doing to inspire other women and young girls, please don't ignore that," King added.
Jessica Alba has made her opinion on the controversial all-women spaceflight very clear. A group of women, headlined by Jeff Bezos's fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, made a trip to space. Sanchez was joined by Gayle King, Katy Perry, and three others in a flight to space, as part of Bezos's company, Blue Origin. The group traveled briefly to space on Monday.
While some praised the flight, many were critical, including Hollywood stars like Emily Ratajkowski and Olivia Munn. "That space mission this morning? That's end times (expletive)," Ratajkowski told her TikTok followers. "This is beyond parody." She added: "Saying that you care about Mother Earth and it's about Mother Earth, and you're going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that's singlehandedly destroying the planet." Munn, who is starring in Apple TV's new show, Your Friends and Neighbors, sounded off earlier this spring. "I'm just saying this. I know this is probably not the cool thing to say, but there are so many other things that are so important in the world right now," she said. "It's so much money to go to space," Munn added, saying: "There's a lot of people who can't even afford eggs … I think it's a bit gluttonous."
Meanwhile, Alba has made her opinion on the trip clear. The longtime Hollywood star shared and agreed with a post from View co-host Ana Navarro on Wednesday. "I’ve seen endless criticism of five women doing their space thing," Navarro, 53, wrote on her Instagram page. "I can’t see how it affects our lives. I wish people would show [the] same energy and focus that anger toward fearlessly denouncing [President] Trump’s abuses of power. Which do affect countless lives in the US and the world." Alba, meanwhile, had a one-word reaction. "This," she wrote, agreeing with Navarro's comment.
Jessica Alba slammed critics of Blue Origin’s space flight passengers. Alba backed the all-women space crew, resharing a post from political strategist Ana Navarro-Cárdenas. The post stated that people should focus anger towards denouncing Trump's abuses of power.
The all-women crew on Blue Origin’s 10-minute space trip included the big names in the industry, like Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez, music icon Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen.
Recently, Gayle speaks out for the trip after massive backlash. Gayle shared with Extra: "I think it’s good that we can really address it … because I was one of those people before I went on this flight and before I became educated. ‘Why are we spending so much money on space when there’s so much to do on Earth?’ I was one of those people." But Gayle later said that she changed her mind after digging into Blue Origin’s mission. She learned that their goal wasn't just about space trips as it was about finding ways to use waste from Earth and send it into space to help improve our planet.
Jessica Alba is defending the women who made history on this week's New Shepard rocket trip to space and says that anger should be directed at President Donald Trump. Alba kept it short and sharp on her IG Story -- just a bold "THIS" slapped above a post from political strategist Ana Navarro-Cárdenas, who said she couldn't see how an 11-minute space flight by Lauren Sánchez, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn was affecting anyone's lives personally.
Olivia Munn, Olivia Wilde, and Emily Ratajkowski have criticized the mission. Gayle King clapped back at trolls saying the money should’ve gone elsewhere, telling TMZ that space travel isn’t happening in the place of fixing things down here on Earth ... it’s happening alongside other projects. Still, looks like this one’s gonna keep the internet orbiting around debate for a while!
