My question is, ‘Have y’all been to space?’ Go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing,’” the TV host said.

King was joined by five other women on the Blue Origin flight: singer Katy Perry, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyễn, film producer Kerianne Flynn and Lauren Sanchez, a pilot and the fiancée of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.