Jessica Alba defends pals Lauren Sánchez, Katy Perry after Blue Origin space flight prompts mass backlash

Jessica Alba has thrown her support down nan arguable all-female Blue Origin mission, alternatively urging fans to nonstop their anger toward President Trump.

On Monday, Katy Perry, Gayle King and Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez joined astronaut and bioastronautics investigation intelligence Amanda Nguyen, NASA rocket intelligence Aisha Bowe and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn for a historical abstraction flight.

But their 11-minute voyage prompted wide backlash, pinch a slew of celebrities, fans and even fast-food chains slamming nan travel arsenic pointless while others complained about its biology impact.

On Wednesday, Alba took to her Instagram Story to stock a connection pinch her 21 cardinal followers connected nan level arsenic backlash rages on.

The Honest Beauty founder, 43, reposted a connection from governmental strategist Ana Navarro-Cárdenas, which encouraged group to nonstop their power toward “denouncing” nan POTUS.

“I’ve seen endless criticisms of 5 women doing their abstraction thing, I can’t spot really it affects our lives,” nan connection read, pinch Alba writing, “THIS,” supra nan post.

“I wish group would show aforesaid power & attraction that anger towards fearlessly denouncing Trump’s abuses of power, which do impact countless lives successful nan US and nan world.”

The “Fantastic Four” alum, who boasts a adjacent relationship pinch Sánchez, is 1 of nan very fewer stars defending nan trip.

Meanwhile, celebrities like Amy Schumer, Olivia Wilde, Emily Ratajkowski and Olivia Munn slammed nan abstraction voyage successful a bid of societal media posts earlier this week.

The dislike prompted King to speak out, arsenic she suggested that nan all-female unit was being held to a different modular than men who’ve been to space.

“Have you been?” King scolded critics.

“Please don’t telephone it a ‘ride,’” she added, claiming group don’t usage this word erstwhile talking astir men going into space. 

“We duplicated nan aforesaid trajectory that Alan Shepard did backmost successful nan day, beautiful much. No 1 called that a ‘ride,’” nan CBS big said. “It was called a flight, it was called a journey.”

“There was thing frivolous astir what we did,” she added. “I’m very disappointed and very saddened by it. And I besides opportunity this, what it’s doing to animate different women and young girls, please don’t disregard that.”

She besides addressed wide critics who complained astir nan flight’s biology impact, saying that Bezos’ ngo pinch Blue Origin was to observe if nan rocket would beryllium capable to return discarded from Earth into abstraction to “make our satellite cleaner.”

“Space is not an either/or. It’s a both/and. And because you do thing successful abstraction doesn’t mean you’re taking thing distant from Earth,” King argued. 

The star-studded team of women became nan first all-female unit to sojourn abstraction since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova took a solo formation successful 1963.