If you’re on social media in the past days, you’ve seen videos and memes of Anchor Gail King’s uneasy expressions on CBS News.
They each excited their faces as each woman on the flight rang the bell before entering the space capsule. Except for the king.
The response quickly lit up social media.
“Gail King is all of us on Monday,” one user wrote on X.
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“I swear to God that I don’t want to go to space less than Gale King,” writes another.
Hours after going viral, King went to social media to explain why she was like that.
“I didn’t notice that I was being photographed at the moment, nor did I notice that my expression looked so scary, but I was,” she revealed on Instagram. “I was just thinking, ‘I’m going to come in and get a seat, I’m going to do this.’ ”
She also insisted that she didn’t want to travel.
“I always knew I was going to do that, but if you were to retreat, you were told that you had to do that 2 minutes and 30 seconds ago, but you had to say, ‘I’m not going to fly,'” she explained.
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King said getting on the spaceship was “a little scary.”
“The memes show that I was uneasy,” she said. “I tell you, look at the picture of me getting off the capsule. That’s what’s important.”
The video shows all the smiles as King leaves the capsule and lifts his hand into the air and kisses the ground.
To add more lightness to the situation, she changed her Instagram profile picture to a virus image.
King was one of six women put into space on Monday, marking the first female flight into space in more than half a century. The group included King, singer Katy Perry, journalist Lauren Sanchez, former NASA scientist Aisha Bow, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kellianne Flynn.
