Olivia Munn Describes Katy Perry & Co.’s All-Female Space Mission as ‘Excessive’

Olivia Munn wants celebrities to stay down to Earth — literally.

The actress co-hosted Today With Jenna & Friends this week, where she called out the upcoming all-female space flight headed by Jeff Bezos’ space tech company, Blue Origin. “What are they doing?” she said. “I know this probably isn’t the cool thing to say, but there are so many other things that are so important in the world right now.”

She continued, “I know this is probably obnoxious, but like, it’s so much money to go to space, and there’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs.”

Katy Perry will be on the trip, as will CBS Mornings‘ Gayle King, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amanda Nguyen and entrepreneur/film producer Kerianne Flynn on the NS-31 expedition. The trip will be led by Lauren Sánchez — who is engaged to Bezos and is vice chair of the billionaire’s Earth Fund — and marks Blue Origin’s 11th human space flight.

Munn said she felt the trip was unnecessary. “What’s the point? Is it historic that you guys are going on a ride? I think it’s a bit gluttonous,” she said. “Space exploration was to further our knowledge and to help mankind. What are they gonna do up there that has made it better for us down here?”

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According to Blue Origin’s Instagram post, the spacecraft’s launch window begins at 8:30 a.m. CT on April 14 in the West Texas high desert. 

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