Apparently, for some reason, Katy Perry is was in outer space this morning.
By the time you read this, Perry and the rest of the all-female flight team have already touched down safely on the surface of the Earth, but this morning a team of 6 women took a Blue Origin rocket into outer space for an 11 minute space-flight.
The initiative was lead by Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, who wanted to open space travel up to women by redesigning space suits to be more flattering to the female figure. I won’t make too many personal comments about that other than to say, shouldn’t be be worried totally and completely on if the space suits are absolutely as protective and functional as possible, while letting style go to the wayside?
I’m no astrophysicist so what do I know I guess…
At 9:30am, the rocket took off and the flight was thankfully a complete success.
The Blue Origin all-female crew, including Katy Perry, have launched into Space. pic.twitter.com/18Oo6GAnOa
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Upon their return, Katy hopped out of the capsule and kissed the ground, saying:
“Let me just appreciate the ground for just a second.”
Katy Perry exiting the rocket capsule. pic.twitter.com/rSIApEQ8m2
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While the number of things that can go wrong in any type of rocket launch is nearly uncountable, this was clearly a way for Blue Origin to raise its public awareness as SpaceX (owned by Elon Musk) has clearly been the most recognizable private space exploration company in the past few years. It’s not the first time the Bezos backed company sent a celebrity into orbit; William Shatner, at 90 years old, did a similar flight back in 2021.
In the lead-up to this flight, much was made about the all-female team aboard consisting of Perry, Sanchez, Gayle King (CBS journalist), Kerianne Flynn (film producer), Aisha Bowe (former NASA rocket scientist), and Amanda Nguyen (bioastronautics research scientist and sexual violence survivor advocate).
The focus wasn’t just on the fact that they were female though…
In an interview with Elle earlier this month, Perry said:
“Space is going to finally be glam. Let me tell you something. If I could take glam up with me, I would do that. We are going to put the “ass” in astronaut.”
Not going to lie, I kind of love things like this, as weird and seemingly unnecessary as they are. As a kid who was obsessed with space growing up (who didn’t have a dream of going to the moon or Mars?), I do love that “normal” (using that term loosely here) are starting to be able to take a trip up to see our planet from way up there.
It’s always going to be celebrities and people with money who get to do the cool things first. Will these women wearing full makeup and taking a 10+ minute journey into the sky get more women interested in becoming astronauts? Time will tell and I’m certainly unqualified to speak on that, but hey, credit them for trying I guess?
NASA is currently working on a program titled Artemis II, which will potentially have a number of women part of the planned moon landing, the first of its kind since the Apollo 17 mission in December of 1972.
Going to go out on a limb and say those women will be more focused on utility over design when it comes to those spacesuits…
Katy Perry returning to Earth. pic.twitter.com/XyxFnOjdA0
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