That is proper, an area craft – carrying Katy Perry and 5 different girls – has simply visited house.
The world of celeb is actually a wierd one. One second you are acting on stage flanked by males in shark costumes or spraying whipped cream out of your bra whereas singing alongside Snoop Dogg and the subsequent, you are blasting off for an 11-minute journey to house.
Earlier this yr, it was confirmed that Jeff Bezos’ house expertise firm invited Perry and 5 different girls, CBS journalist Gayle King, rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, activist Amanda Nguyen, movie producer Kerianne Flynn and Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sánchez, for a journey into the cosmos.
After months of preparation the launch day is lastly right here, with Perry, King, Bowe, Nguyen, Flynn and Sánchez having boarded the spacecraft and blasted off from West Texas.
Try a video from of the spacecraft’s elevate off under:
Naturally, your first query is prone to be ‘Why is Katy Perry going to house?’ Effectively the reply to that’s, why not?
And likewise for the advance of house tourism, which signifies that in the future your or I will cross over the Karman Line – which is the boundary between the Earth’s environment and outer house – and see the celebrities up shut.
That’s for those who can afford the hefty price ticket, because it’ll require a $150,000 (£114,000) deposit to e-book a seat on the flight.
The six girls had been additionally capable of expertise weightlessness through the 4 minutes they crossed over into outer house.
The crew aren’t the primary house vacationers both, with billionaires equivalent to Richard Branson and even Bezos himself heading to house on earlier flights.
Even Star Trek star William Shatner was in a position make the journey onboard one of many Blue Origin shuttles, changing into the oldest individual to go into house on the age of 90 in 13 October, 2021.
I ponder if any of the group, like Shatner, will come again house feeling like their perspective of life on Earth has basically modified?
Perry can be rumoured to sing through the flight. That is but to be confirmed, however we won’t think about the singer lacking out on the chance to sing ‘Firework’ or ‘ET’ through the flight.
In the meantime on the bottom, the launch was additionally attended by quite a few astronauts in addition to celebrities, with Oprah Winfrey, Kris Jenner and Khloe Kardashian exhibiting as much as watch the group journey by the celebrities as house vacationers.
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