Gayle King’s Reaction Before Going Into Space Is a Meme Goldmine — Here Are the Best Ones

In April 2025, Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin organized a flight into space featuring an all-female space crew. The list of lady space cadets included Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, Kerianne Flynn, Aisha Bowe, and Amanda Nguyen.

Unsurprisingly, many tuned in to witness the first-ever female space crew launch takeoff at the Blue Origin’s launch site in Van Horn, Texas.

While the celeb women made it safe and landed approximately 10 minutes after the flight, many onlookers were worried for them. Katy even expressed her gratitude for returning to the ground by kissing it soon after they landed. Now that we know the crew is safe, some can't get over how Gayle reacted while boarding the flight.

Amid her crew mates' excited and gleeful looks to go on their first space ship, Gayle looked as if she had discovered the error of her ways too late. As she joined the other celebs, she looked horrified and extremely unprepared to take flight. But, don't take our word for it. Social media comedians also saw her reaction and shared their hilarious commentary. Here are just some of the best memes regarding her Space Flight reaction.

While Gayle's Monday, April 14, 2025 Blue Origin flight wasn't something us at home would experience, many of us dealing with our own feelings about the start of the week understood her face entirely. As she walked onto the spaceship with nothing but dread in her eyes, those working jobs they don't like, or just simply don't want to go to, felt her pain.

Gayle and Katy have likely crossed paths before, but they hadn't been in one another's space as tightly as they were on their space flight. The celebs were in close corners during the launch, leading some to believe Gayle eventually grew tired of Katy, much like NeNe Leakes did during the epic couples night brawl on Season 6 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Anyone paying attention to Gayle's career over the last several decades knows she and Oprah Winfrey have been "bestie goals" longer than the term has been around. So, few were surprised when Oprah joined the crowd to watch Gayle and her crew's space flight live. In addition to attending, the daytime queen became emotional after she watched the rocket take off.

Many put themselves in Oprah's shoes in that moment, while others hilariously compared her tears to other less serious issues like opening a banking app.

Though the Blue Origin space flight was only 10 minutes long, Gayle's reaction to boarding the flight showed she may not have had the best time. As the meme of a woman expressing her fears on a commercial flight shows, Gayle was likely shaken throughout the entire experience.

One social media commenter shared their thoughts on Gayle's space flight reaction by pulling out a throwback yet relevant post on X (formerly Twitter) from Trisha Paytas. The post, which Trisha initially shared in 2017 to describe her Big Brother experience, was something fans felt Gayle might tell her homegirls in their group chat. And honestly, the accuracy is real.

Although the space flight was Gayle and the rest of the crew's time to shine, some Disney Channel fans weren't impressed. Especially when our space queen Zenon Kar (Kirsten Storms) of Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, had been living her best (albeit fictional) life in space since 2000.

While Gayle, Katy, and others were the first real female space cadets, X loves to remind us who did it first. And that's on Nebula!