A sassy crew, a billionaire and a star circus within the desert. Area missions do not get any weirder.
However that is the brand new world of Blue Origin and its publicity machine.
It introduced collectively six ladies – all on the high of their sport – and dressed them in designer flight fits. One in every of them, singer Katy Perry, stated they “put the ass into astronauts”.
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Katy Perry’s journey into area
They launched in a rocket referred to as New Shepard, rising to 65 miles above the Earth, the place they unbuckled and floated.
Perry held a daisy – a tribute to her daughter, who’s named after the flower.
And there was wild pleasure over the sight of the moon. Did one in all them actually say it was their goddess?
In the meantime, again on planet Earth there was a star-studded gathering.
There have been a few Kardashians. And Oprah Winfrey was there too, masking her eyes, barely in a position to look.
Then the astronauts had been again, launched from the capsule by Jeff Bezos, the mega-rich founding father of the corporate and fiance of Lauren Sanchez, one other well-known identify within the crew.
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Jeff Bezos welcomes Lauren Sanchez as she and different celebrities land again on Earth. Pic: Reuters
It was all a little bit surreal, and perhaps it’s going to have attracted an viewers who would not usually watch an area launch.
It is exceptional that this was the primary all-female area mission in additional than 60 years.
Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the primary lady in area.
Round 100 have adopted her – not least Suni Williams, not too long ago again from her prolonged nine-month keep on the Worldwide Area Station.
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What occurred on Blue Origin’s all-female area flight?
4 minutes of weightlessness as an area vacationer does not actually evaluate.
However Perry hopes the mission will encourage extra women and girls – not least her daughter – to shoot for the celebrities.
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(L-R) Jeff Bezos, Kerianne Flynn, Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Aisha Bowe, Gayle King, Amanda Nguyen, Sarah Knights, director of Blue Origin’s astronaut workplace, and Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp. Pic: AP
