This was a billion-dollar brand using its platform to publicly demean a woman,” a source tells PEOPLE Katy Perry was part of Blue Origin’s all-female space flight earlier this week The trip was criticized by some,

As part of Blue Origin’s all-female flight crew, Perry got the chance to view Earth from outer space when she joined journalist Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe and journalist Lauren Sánchez, who is also Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, for the once in a lifetime trip.