Gayle King and Katy Perry both kissed the ground when they landed back on Earth after going to space, but Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ lips ended up touching the ground for an embarrassing reason that was seen by everyone watching the moment on a live stream.
Blue Origin, Bezos’s space technology company, just sent an all-female crew to space, but when he met the capsule when it landed in the Texas desert on Monday morning things didn’t go exactly as planned.
The second richest man in the world ran up to the capsule carrying his fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, but fell face-first into the dirt before he go the chance to greet her.
After face planting, the 61-year-old billionaire popped back up and seemed to pretend nothing had happed before continuing on to open the hatch for the crew that included a combination of celebrities as scientist. The history-making crew included Sanchez, Perry, and Gayle King, who were joined by film producer Kerianne Flynn, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen.
The embarrassing moment was captured on film, prompting the internet to start dunking on Bezos.
“Jeff bezos planting face in front baddies, lol,” one person joked on X (formerly Twitter), while another wrote, “Jeff Bezos trips and face plants. First time it’s felt like he’s a normal person.”
The star-studded nearly 11-minute-long journey to space was the first all-female spaceflight since 1963 when Soviet-era cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space when she went on a nearly three-day solo flight orbiting Earth, NPR reports.
All of the women on the flight looked elated as they left the shuttle, except for King, who just looked done.
"Gayle King is all of us on a Monday," one person wrote.
"It's oddly quiet when you get up there," King said. "It's really quiet and peaceful, and you look down on the planet and think: That's where we came from? To me it's such a reminder about how we need to do better, be better.”
