Nikki Glaser won’t be joining the likes of Katy Perry and Gayle King by visiting space any time soon.
After being named on the TIME100 Most Influential People of 2025 list, the comedian joked to E! News on Thursday, April 25 that her next step is to go to “space.”
“Just kidding, no, no, I do not want to go to space,” Glaser, 40, quickly clarified to the outlet on the red carpet. “Not only because of the backlash I will face, but I just have no interest in going to space.”
Instead, Glaser said she was content to just enjoy her success after a busy and rewarding year career-wise, which also included hosting the 2025 Golden Globes.
“I want to enjoy the riches of my success. I think I’ve been just trying to maintain it, like ‘don’t go away,’ and I haven’t, like, really enjoyed any of it, like you’re just trying to keep it,” she said. “I want to relax and let it in a bit.”
The all-female Blue Origin crew — which included singer Perry, CBS Mornings host King, Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn — traveled to space on April 14 for an 11-minute flight.
The mission soon attracted criticism from many celebrities, including Joe Rogan, Jessica Chastain and Olivia Wilde.
Nikki Glaser. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
Model Emily Ratajkowski, for her part, reacted to the rocket’s takeoff on TikTok, saying she was “disgusted” by the event. “That’s end time s***,” Ratajkowski said in the clip. “Like, this is beyond parody.”
“You say that you care about Mother Earth, and it’s about Mother Earth, and you go up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that is single-handedly destroying the planet,” she continued. “Look at the state of the world and think about how many resources went into putting these women into space. For what?”
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Defending their trip, King told People in a statement that “anybody that’s criticizing it doesn’t really understand what is happening here.”
Perry, for her part, has gushed over her 11-minute journey which she called “second to being a mom.” Perry, who shares Daisy, 5, with fiancé Orlando Bloom, explained why she brought her little girl’s namesake flower on her trip.
“Daisies are common flowers, but they grow through any condition,” she told Fox Sports shortly after returning from space. “They grow through cement. They grow through cracks. They grow through walls. They are resilient. … It’s a reminder of our beautiful Earth and the flowers here and God’s smile and the beautiful magic that is everywhere, all around us, and even in a simple daisy. So, to really appreciate it and remember it and take care of it and protect it.”
