Blue Origin’s April 14 space flight crew; Emily Ratajkowski. Photo:

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• Emily Ratajkowski criticized Blue Origin’s April 14 flight with an all-female crew, as well as Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, in a pair of TikToks shared after the mission
• The model said the mission left her “disgusted” and called out those involved for hypocrisy, and specifically “saying that you care about Mother Earth” and then “going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s single-handedly destroying the planet”
• “… we need to be able to discern what real progress looks like, and what happened yesterday was nothing like that,” Ratajkowski said of the mission
• Crew members Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez, Bezos’ fiancée, have previously pushed back on criticisms of the mission, with King saying, “Anybody that’s criticizing it doesn’t really understand what is happening here”

Emily Ratajkowski is joining the critics of Blue Origin’s recent mission.

After the headline-making, all-female flight crew — including Gayle King, Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez — completed its approximately 11-minute round-trip expedition to the edge of space on Monday, April 14, the model, 33, shared her unfiltered thoughts about the venture in two scalding TikToks.

“That space mission this morning, that’s end-time s—. Like, this is beyond parody,” Ratajkowski began the TikTok before seemingly turning her attention to Blue Origin founder Bezos, and more specifically, the business through which he built his fortune, Amazon.

“Saying that you care about Mother Earth, and it’s about Mother Earth, and going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s single-handedly destroying the planet?” the model questioned. “Look at the state of the world, and think about how many resources went into putting these women into space, and for what?”

She continued, “For what, what was the marketing there? And then to try to make it like … I’m disgusted. Literally, I’m disgusted.”

The model’s rant was met with an overwhelming supportive response, with most top comments echoing her disdain for the venture and wishing that the resources used were put toward other causes. “They acted like it was a win for feminism,” one TikTok user wrote. “The money used to send them to space could have been used to actually help women in so many ways.”

Still others praised Ratajkowski for joining Olivia Munn and the small group of influential figures who have openly slammed the costly April 14 expedition, whose crew also included rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.

The following day, April 15, Ratajkowski returned to elaborate on her original commentary, beginning the follow-up TikTok, “Okay, I’m back. I have more to say.”

“I think that this space mission is confusing to people because seeing women and people of color in spaces like science and politics that have not previously included them feels and looks like, really looks like — optically looks like — progress,” she said. “But the truth is, is that having a man who has gained his power and become a part of the 1% purely through exploitation and greed deciding to take his fiancée and a few other famous women to space for space tourism is not progress.”

Rather, Ratajkowski argued, “it just speaks to the fact that we are absolutely living in an oligarchy, where there is a very small group of people who are interested in going to space for the sake of getting a new lease on life while the rest of the population — most people on Planet Earth — are worried about paying rent, or, you know, having dinner for their kids.”

Blue Origin’s April 14 expedition taking off. Blue Origin/Youtube

“I saw a creator on here who said that ‘privilege is not an accomplishment,’” she continued, saying that, additionally, “exploitation is certainly not an accomplishment, and being able to take the privilege that you have gained from exploitation and greed of the planet, of resources, of human beings, and then doing something like going to space for 11 minutes, is certainly not an accomplishment.”

“That’s why this all is giving Hunger Games, right?” she added, referring to the dystopian franchise and cautionary tale about abuses of wealth and power.

The model finished by explaining that she made a second video about the expedition “because I think we’re in a place in the world where we need to be able to discern what real progress looks like, and what happened yesterday was nothing like that.”

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Blue Origin’s April 14 flight crew in space. Blue Origin

Crew members King, 70, and Sánchez, 55, have both responded to criticism of the flight. In a press conference following the expedition, King said that in her eyes, “anybody that’s criticizing it doesn’t really understand what is happening here. We can all speak to the response we’re getting from young women from young girls about what this represents.”

“I get really fired up,” Sánchez added. “I would love to have them come to Blue Origin and see the thousands of employees that don’t just work here but they put their heart and soul into this vehicle.”

“They love their work and they love the mission and it’s a big deal for them,” she continued. “So when we hear comments like that, I just say, ‘Trust me. Come with me. I’ll show you what this is about, and it’s, it’s really eye-opening.’ ”