Blue Origin forced to take down video after female astronaut was 'sexualized' by 'hoards of men'

Jeff Bezos' spaceflight institution Blue Origin has been forced to instrumentality down a video of pistillate astronaut aft she was deed by a question of intersexual and misogynistic comments.

The clip included footage of Emily Calandrelli, besides known arsenic 'Space Gal,' hanging upside down successful the weightlessness of the capsule, arsenic she gazed retired the model and said 'oh my God, this is space.'

Thousands of net trolls seized the infinitesimal to ruin her acquisition by 'sexualizing' the amateur astronaut.

One X idiosyncratic commented: 'It’s not an achievement being a woman.'

Another antheral asked: 'Would you see yourself the hottest pistillate to ever spell to space? Any different contenders?'

The messages were truthful vitriolic that they brought Calandrelli to tears portion flying location aft the mission, she stated successful an Instagram station made Sunday.  

Blue Origin took down their archetypal video and replaced it with an edited one, Calandrelli said, but she has since reposted it to deed backmost astatine those trying to ruin her peculiar moment.

Her portion successful this ngo was historic: she was the 100th pistillate to task into space. 

Calandrelli is an MIT aerospace engineer, subject communicator and TV big known arsenic 'Space Gal' who has amassed hundreds of thousands of societal media followers. 

She and 5 different abstraction tourists embarked connected the ninth quality trial formation of Blue Origin's New Shepherd spacecraft. 

All six of the 'space tourists' paid for their spot connected the rocket, though the terms per summons remains undisclosed.  

The rocket launched from the company's spaceport extracurricular of Van Horn, Texas on Friday. Blue Origin filmed the mission, capturing almighty footage of the amateur astronauts' reactions to seeing Earth from vantage constituent of space. 

Online trolls, mostly men, became fixated on Calandrelli's reaction. 

One Threads idiosyncratic commented: 'why she moaning I cannot unhear it.' 

'This each happened arsenic I was flying location aft experiencing the astir perfect, fantastic dream-achieving acquisition of my life,' Calandrelli wrote connected Instagram. 

'And alternatively of being connected unreality nine, I'm crying successful my spot staring retired the window.'

She went connected to accidental that she spent the formation texting her 'space sisters' for advice, 'to stock choler and sadness and to person validation that I person thing to beryllium embarrassed of.'

'I garbage to springiness overmuch clip to the tiny men connected the internet. I consciousness experiences successful my soul,' she added. 

'I volition not apologize oregon consciousness weird astir my reaction. It's wholly excavation and I emotion it.'

As she near the flight, a stewardess recognized her and noticed that she had been crying, whispering 'don't fto them dull your shine' arsenic she walked disconnected the plane, Calandrelli wrote. 

'I felt an contiguous consciousness of camaraderie with her, with each women.' 

Though Blue Origin opted to instrumentality the video down, Calandrelli reposted it connected X this morning. 

'Seeing our satellite for the archetypal time, a imagination decades successful the making,' she wrote.

'You're seeing truthful galore emotions intertwined. Excitement, awe, and pridefulness - but to beryllium honorable a small fearfulness and disorder too.'

It's wide that the acquisition was profoundly moving for Calandrelli, who likened it to giving commencement to her children upon landing astatine Blue Origin's motorboat tract successful West Texas.

'It was the aforesaid feeling I got erstwhile my kids were calved wherever I'm like, seeing it for the archetypal time,' she said.

Hundreds of societal media users besides shared messages of enactment for Calandrelli, praising her arsenic an inspiration. 

'I spot your joy! Well earned, truthful breathtaking and truthful inspirational for women and girls everywhere,' 1 idiosyncratic commented connected her post.  

Several women commented connected her station saying that they watched the motorboat unrecorded watercourse with their daughters.

Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the archetypal pistillate to spell to space, launching connected a solo ngo in 1963. After that historical mission, it took different 20 years for a pistillate to permission Earth again.

The archetypal American pistillate successful abstraction was NASA astronaut Sally Ride, who launched with 4 different astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger connected ngo STS-7 successful 1983. 

The sex imbalance successful US spaceflight remains stark. Since its inception successful 1958, NASA has selected 360 astronaut candidates: 299 men and lone 61 women, according to bureau fact sheet updated connected November 12. 

While Calandrelli is not an authoritative NASA astronaut, her historical travel to abstraction serves arsenic a reminder of what women are susceptible of.

'I americium truthful blessed astir this. You are truthful an inspiration for aboriginal generations, specially girls successful STEM,' 1 idiosyncratic commented connected her X post. 

Blue Origin did not instantly respond to DailyMail.com's petition for comment.