Gayle King’s still riding high after that nerve-wracking Blue Origin mission -- but she’s bringing it back down to Earth just a bit to clap back at the haters saying the money could be spent elsewhere.
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00:00what is your message yeah come on let me walk you to the car what is what is your message to
00:08everybody talking smack i saw that some people said space is expensive and americans can't
00:13afford eggs oh my goodness this is the thing i'm gonna use i'm gonna use the mel robbins theory
00:20of let them but i say anybody that is criticizing this and some of them are people i know and like
00:27so i'm a little surprised i say you should go to blue origin and see what they're doing i was one
00:33of those people in the beginning too space why are we spending money on space we have so much to do
00:37here space exploration is not an either or it's a both and and because you're doing something in
00:44space doesn't mean you're taking anything away from what's happening at earth and so once you
00:49educate yourself and you see that and what the team in blue origin is doing what it takes to get that
00:55rocket up and get it down safely with the precision they said the mission was flawless
01:00right that's number one that hurts number two i really resent that people are calling it a ride
01:05we duplicated the trajectory of alan shepard's flight back in the day no one called that a ride a ride
01:12sounds frivolous it sounds insignificant this was a bona fide flight it was a journey right so i don't
01:21like people trying to minimal i don't like people trying to minimalize what was done there that's
01:27that's number number two and number three the thing that most gets me is what is the message that
01:36hey the message that it sends to young women and young girls i've had so many people no exaggeration
01:42reach out to me and say because you did it it makes me think i can do it too oh my young women and
01:50young women and young girls and even some men it makes you think what is possible the more people
01:56that listen everybody's trying i know it's expensive everybody's trying to figure out a way to make it
02:01more affordable yeah the more people that get to do it and every time they go up there every single
02:06time they're learning something two of the women that want are rocket scientists astrophysicists
02:11activists i do yeah yeah we're doing experiments every time you go up there you're learning something
02:16so you know i say have a have you been to space have you seen what blue origin does to get these
02:23machines up get them up and get them down with the precision that they do yeah so i just say you know
02:29i'm sorry there are haters there's always going to be haters but i really think and this and that's
02:34why i'm standing here talking to you because i feel so passionate about it i appreciate you hi harvey what
02:38about these ears are you getting these ears fierce but that's why i feel so careful that's why i feel
02:44so passionately about it because it's been an inspiration we're we're we're not under any
02:49illusion that this one flight is going to change things but what it does is it does open doors
02:53we're the first but my hope is it will not be the last
02:56you