This week's all-female Blue Origin space mission has continued to garner attention, but not for the message of female empowerment it originally intended to send to the millions of humans back on Earth.
Instead, the 11-minute expedition has received backlash for its jaw-dropping price tag, for its questionable environmental impact, and for the bizarre and dramatic antics of its six-person crew after they touched down on Earth's soil.
Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sanchez, as well as NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and activist Amanda Nguyen, were included in the all-female fleet that took off on Monday morning from West Texas.
Despite their seemingly harmless intentions, the optics of the mission – funded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos' space exploration company – have since been described as 'tone deaf' and 'embarrassing.'
Following the backlash, it seems now the Roar singer is experiencing second thoughts about her Blue Origin flight, as an inside source calls the criticism unexpected for the former American Idol judge and 'disheartening' for the rest of the all-female crew.
'Katy doesn't regret going to space. It was life changing. What she does regret is making a public spectacle out of it,' the insider exclusively revealed to DailyMail.com.
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.'
It didn't take long, however, for the public to slam Perry's behavior as dramatic and over-the-top, especially considering NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were recently stranded in space for more than nine months.
The source admitted that 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.
It was previously revealed that Perry planned to bring the daisy to space as a 'beautiful tribute' to her four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove Bloom, who she shares with fiancé Orlando Bloom.
Her daughter was seen for the first time publicly on Monday, as she was dressed in an astronaut costume to watch her famous mom fly to the edge of space.
The parents reportedly made the 'difficult decision' to introduce Daisy to the world because Perry wanted Daisy to be 'proud of her and show her daughter that she can do anything.'
But now, the source shared that the pop star 'regrets sharing the daisy with the world' and ultimately 'wishes the video footage from inside the pod was never shown' at all.
It wasn't just social media users who criticized the all-female Blue Origin space mission on Monday either.
In fact, a slew of fellow celebrities – including Emily Ratajkowski, Olivia Wilde, Olivia Munn, and Amy Schumer – have slammed the spectacle as a frivolous publicity campaign for Bezos' space company.
