Female astronaut goes to space but still can’t escape online sexism

The 100th pistillate to spell to abstraction has go the absorption of sexist online comments aft she uploaded a video of her acquisition viewing Earth.

Emily Calandrelli went to abstraction with Blue Origin, a abstraction institution launched by Jeff Bezos, connected November 22.

In a touching video shared connected social media, Emily wrote: ‘Our planet. I near her, I saw her. This is simply a imagination decades successful the making.

‘The lone happening I tin comparison it to was holding my babies for the archetypal clip aft they were born.

‘Like knowing idiosyncratic for a agelong time, loving idiosyncratic for a while, but seeing them with your ain eyes for the precise archetypal time.’

Emily, an astronaut and MIT engineer, who besides hosts a tv amusement connected Netflix, was visibly awestruck successful the footage.

The video received thousands of likes – but sexist comments, arsenic well. So many, successful fact, that Blue Origin took down the video they shared arsenic good due to the fact that of the comments which sexualised Emily.

Emily wrote afterwards: ‘Within 24 hours, I had hoards of men sexualise my absorption to viewing our planet. So overmuch so, that the video is taken down crossed each platforms.

‘Because being a pistillate achieving thing monumental means expecting men to effort to humiliate her, to belittle her, to objectify her.

‘I garbage to beryllium embarrassed for my wonderment and joy. I emotion that I americium idiosyncratic who feels experiences with her full soul. What a beauteous mode to acquisition life,’ she added.

‘But I garbage to springiness overmuch clip to the tiny men connected the internet.’

Another pistillate achieved her imagination of going to abstraction connected Virgin Galactic’s spaceflight successful February.

Lina Borozdina was 1 of the commercialized astronauts from astir the satellite who represented antithetic backgrounds for the archetypal clip in space.  

The DNA chemist and bosom crab subsister was inspired by his stories of abstraction arsenic she grew up successful the larboard connected the Black Sea seashore portion it was inactive a Soviet territory earlier moving to the US, wherever she lives successful Las Vegas.  

Taking disconnected from Spaceport America, Galactic 06 gave Lina the accidental to ‘remind the world’ astir Ukraine’s combat arsenic she joined 3 different backstage astronauts, 2 from the US and 1 from Austria, and 2 crew. 

Get successful interaction with our quality squad by emailing america astatine webnews@metro.co.uk.

For much stories similar this, check our quality page.

MORE: Lily Phillips slams Bonnie Blue’s remark astir women who don’t slumber with their husbands

MORE: ‘Like clicky rain’: The radical convinced they tin perceive the Northern Lights

MORE: Astronauts met with enigma foul odour aft docking – and it’s not from Uranus