Blue Origin was forced to yank down a clip of astronaut Emily Calandrelli’s candid reaction to being in space when the post was attacked by misogynistic Internet trolls.Calandrelli, 37 — a TV science-program host and aerospace engineer who became the 100th woman in space Friday aboard one of the company’s ships — said she was brought to tears by critics of the short video, which showed her floating upside down in zero gravity as she stared out at Earth from a window.“That’s our planet.Oh my God, this is space,” Calandrelli reflected, full of emotion, in the clip.Almost immediately, thousands of hateful Netizens posted offensive comments targeting her, including even about her looks, according to the Daily Mail.“It’s not an achievement being a woman,” a user wrote about the stand-out MIT grad.Another man posted, “Would you consider yourself the hottest woman to ever go to space? Any other contenders?” One person added, “why she moaning I cannot unhear it.”The responses were so hurtful that Calandrelli, instead of basking in her historic feat aboard billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Origin spacecraft, said in on Instagram on Monday that she was in tears flying home after the mission.“This all happened as I was flying home after experiencing the most perfect, wonderful dream-achieving experience of my life,” she wrote.
“And instead of being on cloud nine, I’m crying in my seat staring out the window.Because of course this happened.
Of course I should have expected this.”She said she texted other female astronauts, her “space sisters,” for advice, and they comforted her and told her she has “nothing to be embarrassed of.“I had to take a moment to feminism myself if I’m being quite honest,” she said.“But I refuse to give much time to the small men on the internet.I feel experiences in my soul.
It’s a trait I got from my father.We feel every emotion deeply and what a beautiful way that is to experience life.
This joy is t...