Martha Stewart is latest star to troll Katy Perry and the Blue Origin 'astronauts'

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Martha Stewart demonstrated 'expert trolling' against Katy Perry and the Blue Origin 'astronauts', reminding her fans of the time she experienced weightlessness on a Zero-G flight in Florida back in 2006.

'In case you spaced out,' the 83-year-old lifestyle guru - who boasts 8.7M social media followers - captioned her Instagram video.

'Martha has always been ahead of her time.'

The Blue Origin space mission on Monday launched with an all-female crew, carrying popstar Katy Perry, alongisde Jeff Bezos's fiancee Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.

The mission was intended to be a statement of female empowerment, but has since been blasted by fellow celebrities for its questionable environmental impact. 

In the viral clip, Stewart (born Kostyra) expertly performed flips and push-ups as she bounced and floated through the air inside the only FAA-approved parabolic flight provider.

'I boarded a Boeing 727 aircraft called G-Force One and experienced what astronauts feel when they reach zero gravity,' the 10-time Daytime Emmy winner explained.

Zero-G - founded in 1993 - costs $8,900 per public flight for passengers, age 12 to 85, and they experience Martian gravity (1/3-gravity), Lunar gravity (1/6-gravity), and zero gravity.

Martha Stewart demonstrated 'expert trolling' against Katy Perry and the Blue Origin 'astronauts' while posting a throwback Thursday reminding her fans of the time she experienced weightlessness on a Zero-G flight in Florida back in 2006

For each of the 15 parabolas passengers experience over the course of the flight, there's about 30 seconds of zero gravity.

Director Ron Howard used this same technology to film the weightless scenes in his 1995 film Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and the late Bill Paxton.

By contrast, the Blue Origin ladies experienced three-four minutes of weightlessness at the Kármán line (62 miles above Earth) during the New Shepard NS-31 mission over Texas on Monday.

The women have faced a huge backlash from A-listers and members of the public for the bizarre trip, which has been described as 'gluttonous' and 'planet destroying. By far, the 40-year-old pop star has suffered the biggest backlash for being a glorified space tourist, whose 11-minute 'joyride for the super-rich' left a significant carbon footprint here on planet Earth.

Perhaps the most ridiculed moment from Monday's event was when the pop star emerged from the Blue Origin capsule. She immediately stopped and held a daisy up to the sky before descending from the capsule, dropping to her knees and kissing the ground.

Perry then waxed poetic about feeling 'super connected to love,' thanked a reporter who called her an astronaut, and declared how their all-female journey 'has always been about love and belonging.'

'It's not about singing my songs. It's about a collective energy in there. It's about us. It's about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging,' she said in a post-flight interview.

'And it's about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth.'

Blue Origin spokesperson Bill Kircos told CNN on Monday that 'some passengers' flew 'free of charge' while others shelled out the refundable deposit of $150K normally required to start the process of reserving a seat.

Meanwhile, fans cheered on Martha for her Instagram post, including user @winedinecaroline who applauded: 'Expert trolling.'

Instagram user @missmomiss12 commented: 'I don't remember Martha ever calling herself an astronaut.'

'Martha Steward started the "Women Taking Up Space" movement,' Instagram user @the.zanith quipped.

Instagram user @devonlyrandomonium posted a gif of RuPaul's Drag Race #4 alum Latrice Royale fanning herself and saying: 'Gurl, the shade honey!' 

'In case you spaced out,' the 83-year-old lifestyle guru captioned her Instagram video. 'Martha has always been ahead of her time'

In the clip, Stewart (born Kostyra) expertly performed flips and push-ups as she bounced and floated through the air inside the only FAA-approved parabolic flight provider

'I boarded a Boeing 727 aircraft called G-Force One and experienced what astronauts feel when they reach zero gravity,' the 10-time Daytime Emmy winner explained

Zero-G - founded in 1993 - costs $8,900 per public flight for passengers, age 12 to 85, and they experience Martian gravity (1/3-gravity), Lunar gravity (1/6-gravity), and zero gravity

For each of the 15 parabolas passengers experience over the course of the flight, there's about 30 seconds of zero gravity

By contrast, the Blue Origin ladies experienced three-four minutes of weightlessness at the Kármán line (62 miles above Earth) during the New Shepard NS-31 mission over Texas on Monday 

Since the mission, Katy Perry is now reportedly reconsidering her feelings about the mission, telling a source that she 'regrets sharing the daisy with the world' and ultimately 'wishes the video footage from inside the pod was never shown' at all.

She had planned to bring a daisy into space as a tribute to her four-year-old daughter.

Perry now regrets 'kissing the ground' after the flight as well as her 'close-up camera moments' inside the capsule – where she held a daisy up to the camera, promoted the setlist to her upcoming tour, and sang the lyrics to 'What a Wonderful World' all while suspended in microgravity 

Her reactions during the flight have been criticised as being performative and over-the-top, particularly just months after NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were rescued from being stranded in space for more than nine months.

Others have ridiculed the event for the brief amount of time the group of celebrities spent in space.

The New Shepard Rocket carried the capsule to the edge of space at nearly twice the speed of sound before detaching and allowing the crew to experience a few minutes of weightlessness.

During that period the crew capsule crossed the Karman Line, technically passing from Earth's atmosphere into space.

The capsule then made the return journey back to Earth, as the unfurling parachutes drew screams from the crew onboard.

The six-person all-female crew also included (from L-R) Kerianne Flynn, Lauren Sánchez, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, and Gayle King

By far, the 40-year-old pop star (2-L) has suffered the biggest backlash for being a glorified space tourist, whose 11-minute 'joyride for the super-rich' left a significant carbon footprint here on planet Earth

 Just 11 minutes after launch, the New Shepard capsule touched down within driving distance of the launch platform where Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos was present to open the hatch.

On X, commenters slammed the mission, with one writing: 'They spent like 30 seconds in space. It's not much more than a glorified amusement park ride.' 

'I could not care less about rich people going to space right now,' added another.

One wrote: 'It's just a glorified carnival ride with an escape system and parachutes and tailored outfits/seats. It's a PR stunt if anything.'

Technically, passing the Karman Line does mean the crew entered space and could be considered astronauts.

However social media commenters argued that this devalued the work of real female astronauts who train for years to conduct valuable research in space.

One outraged commenter wrote: 'These women going up in Blue Origin are celebrities going for a 10 minute RIDE in low orbit.

'They are not astronauts or a "crew". In fact, calling them that is an insult to all prior women astronaut women scientists.'

Meanwhile, fans cheered on Martha for her Instagram post, including user @winedinecaroline who applauded: 'Expert trolling'

Instagram user @missmomiss12 commented: 'I don't remember Martha ever calling herself an astronaut'

'Martha Steward started the "Women Taking Up Space" movement,' Instagram user @the.zanith quipped

Instagram user @devonlyrandomonium posted a gif of RuPaul's Drag Race #4 alum Latrice Royale fanning herself and saying: 'Gurl, the shade honey!'

One social media user added: 'All Paying Passengers, no trained crew on board. So like flying on an Airline, they do not become Pilots or Astronauts.'

While another added: 'There are female astronauts…they are highly accomplished women in sciences and military aviation.'

A slew of fellow celebrities – including Emily Ratajkowski, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Munn, and Amy Schumer – have also slammed the spectacle as a frivolous publicity campaign for Bezos' space company.

 Model Emily Ratajkowski wrote: 'That space mission this morning? That's end time s**t. Like, this is beyond parody,' she ranted.

'That you care about Mother Earth and it's about Mother Earth, and you're going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that's singlehandedly destroying the planet?'  

Fast food chain Wendy's even emerged as an unlikely critic of the Blue Origin flight when the company left a shady comment under a photo of Perry in her spacesuit, asking if we can 'send her back' to space.

Perry's long standing pop rival Kesha also took pleasure in the backlash by posting a photo of herself drinking from a Wendy's cup – a move that, according to the source, Perry felt was 'adding fuel to the fire.'

Comedian Amy Schumer joined in on the backlash as she shared clips of herself mocking the mission and pretending she was joining.

The pop star was seen kissing the ground as she descended from the Blue Origin capsule, before launching into an emotional post-flight interview with reporters

Upon arriving back on Earth, each of the ladies were seen exiting the rocket one by one - but Perry's reaction to completing the journey left many people all across the web unamused

The singer also took the opportunity to promote her upcoming Lifetimes tour by showing off the setlist while suspended in microgravity

In addition to the all-female crew's bizarre post-flight behavior, a number of social media activists couldn't help but question the environmental impact such a space mission will have on our planet here.

Bezos' rocket does release water vapor as a byproduct, resulting in virtually no direct carbon emissions. But Eloise Marais, a professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality at University College London, told the BBC the water vapor is still an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas that can contribute to global warming.

This was surprising for fans considering Perry's long history of warning about the effects of climate change, most notably in a resurfaced video Perry filmed for UNICEF in 2015.

Bezos' fiancé Lauren Sanchez hit back at critics of the space mission in a post-flight interview. When asked by People about Munn's recent comment that the Blue Origin flight appeared 'gluttonous,' Sanchez told the outlet: 'I get really fired up.'

She added: 'I would love to have them come to Blue Origin and see the thousands of employees that don't just work here but they put their heart and soul into this vehicle. They love their work and they love the mission and it's a big deal for them.

'So when we hear comments like that, I just say, "Trust me. Come with me. I'll show you what this is about, and it's, it's really eye-opening,"' Sanchez said.

On Thursday, Stewart appeared on TODAY to promote her new Gardening Handbook, which hit shelves March 18, and spread some Easter cheer

The domestic diva then instructed Mike Tirico (M) and Savannah Guthrie (L) on how to make 24K gold leaf-covered wooden eggs for the children to find on lavish Easter egg hunts

'It's so much fun to work with gold leaf!' Martha gushed. 'I love gold-leafing things! And you know our president [Donald Trump] loves gold leaf too'

Stewart and José Andrés teamed up to co-host a new cooking competition series Yes, Chef! - premiering April 28 on NBC - in which 12 contestants compete for a $250K grand prize (pictured March 27)

On Thursday, Stewart appeared on TODAY to promote her new Gardening Handbook, which hit shelves March 18, and spread some Easter cheer.

'I'm hosting a lunch at my house,' the domestic diva dished.

'And I thought, I must use everything in the garden. So it is about beautiful floral eggs. It is about the first tulips from the tulip patch. And then finding the biggest, best chocolate rabbit! My friend Jacque Torres gave me that. Isn't that great?'

Martha then instructed Mike Tirico and Savannah Guthrie on how to make 24K gold leaf-covered wooden eggs for the children to find on lavish Easter egg hunts.

'It's so much fun to work with gold leaf!' Stewart gushed.

'I love gold-leafing things! And you know our president [Donald Trump] loves gold leaf too.'

The Uber Eats brand ambassador and José Andrés teamed up to co-host a new cooking competition series Yes, Chef! - premiering April 28 on NBC - in which 12 contestants compete for a $250K grand prize.