Emily Calandrelli on Friday became the 100th woman to go to space. He was part of the group of six tourists aboard the ninth manned flight of the private company Blue Origin which, for several minutes, flew over the Kármán line, the limit that separates the Earth’s atmosphere from outer space. The view of the Earth from the window of the ship New Shepard It deeply impacted this engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who did not hesitate to share her emotions in a video on social networks. What he could not expect is that his spontaneous comments would receive a wave of sexist reactions, full of offense and hatred. His crime? Compare your feelings when admiring the planet with those you experienced at the birth of your children.
“We reached weightlessness, I immediately turned around and looked at the planet and there was so much darkness. “There was so much space,” he said in the video posted online after landing in West Texas, at the Blue Origin launch site. «I didn’t expect to see so much space and I kept saying: That’s our planet! That’s our planet! It was the same feeling I had when my children were born and I thought, ‘That’s my baby!'”
Shortly after, the comments under the video were filled with sexist reactions. According to the newspaper ‘The Guardian’, The engineer has assured that some sexualized her reaction when seeing the planet from space. The incident led billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to remove the original video from its social media accounts.
“The little men of the internet”
Calandrelli, who also hosts a television show on Netflix called Emily’s Wonder Lab, where she is known as ‘Space Gal’, has acknowledged that the reactions saddened and angered her, but she refuses to “dedicate too much time to the little men of the internet.”
«I feel the experiences in my soul (…) and how beautiful that way of experiencing life is. This joy is tattooed on my heart,” he defended himself. «I will not apologize or feel strange for my reaction. It’s completely mine and I love it,” he added.
«(The flight to space is) A dream that I have been developing for decades. The only thing I can compare it to was when I held my babies for the first time after they were born. “It was like knowing someone for a long time, loving someone for a while, but seeing it with your own eyes for the first time,” he also explained on his Instagram account.
“It touched my soul and is tattooed on my heart forever,” the text continues. How lucky I am to be one of the 100 women who were able to experience this view. “I don’t take it for granted and I plan to share this wonder with as many people as I can.”
He has not only received criticism. Other people share Callandrelli’s point of view: “It’s incredible. I love the perspective of a mother who looks at our planet with so much pride and love. Beautiful,” wrote one user. Another says she likes her “raw and real emotions” in the video and several Internet users thank her for being an inspiration for girls to pursue their dreams in the future.
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