Olivia Wilde Criticizes Katy Perry & Co.’s All-Female Space Flight, but Enjoys the ‘Memes’

Olivia Wilde has chimed in on the controversial all-female space expedition helmed by Jeff Bezos‘ space exploration company Blue Origin.

The Don’t Worry Darling actress took to her Instagram Stories on Monday (April 14), shortly after the NS-31 rocket completed its 11-minute journey. She shared a meme featuring two photos of passenger Katy Perry exiting the capsule when returning to Earth, one in which she’s kissing the ground and another in which she’s holding up a daisy while walking outside as a tribute to her daughter, Daisy Dove.

The caption on top of the two photos read, “getting off a commercial flight in 2025 #BlueOrigin.” Wilde added the message, “Billion dollars bought some good memes, I guess.”

The NS-31 expedition marked Blue Origin’s 11th human space flight, and in addition to Perry, included passengers 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. The flight crew was led by Lauren Sánchez — who is engaged to Bezos and is vice chair of the billionaire’s Earth Fund. 

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Before the flight took off, another Olivia also shared her thoughts on the mission. Olivia Munn co-hosted Today With Jenna & Friends last week, where she called out the space flight. “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.”

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