The American singer will fly more than 100 kilometers above sea level aboard a Blue Origin rocket, the Spatial company on the founder of Amazon. She will be accompanied by five other women.
The famous American singer Katy Perry will embark this 100% female rocket this Monday, April 14 for a brief trip to space, an adventure offered by the multimillionaire Jeff Bezos and reserved for a handful of privileged.
An essential artist of American pop, Katy Perry will fly more than 100 kilometers above sea level aboard a Blue Origin rocket, the Spatial company of the Amazon founder.
She will embark alongside five other women, including Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée from western Texas. Takeoff must be held from 8:30 am local (3.30 p.m. French time). The fully automated rocket will take off vertically and the capsule will detach itself in flight, before falling on earth braked by parachutes and a retropropulser.
It will be the first flight in the 100% female space. And from the 11th Suborbital inhabited flight led by the company, which has already been offering these spatial tourism experiences for several years, the price of which is not public, thanks to its New Shepard rocket.
“I am so impatient”
During this experience of ten minutes in total, the six passengers will exceed the Karman line, which marks the space border 100 kilometers according to an international convention. They will be able to detach themselves from their headquarters and briefly float in weightlessness.
-In a recent interview with Elle magazine, Katy Perry explained to take part in this adventure “for (s) a daughter Daisy”, which she had with the famous British actor Orlando Bloom, “in order to encourage him to never set limits to his dreams”.
“I am so impatient to see the inspiration and the light in her eyes when she will see the rocket leaving and that she will return to school the next day saying: ‘Mom went to space’,” said the singer of “California Gurls”, propelled on the international scene by her hit “I Kissed a girl” released in 2008.
During this brief trip as a weightlessness, the artist will also be surrounded by Kerianne Flynn, film producer, Amanda Nguyen, founder of an NGO engaged in the fight against sexual violence, Aisha Bowe, a former scientist from NASA, and the Gayle King TV host.
Future orbit flights
The Blue Origin company has already taken 52 people, including other celebrities like William Shatner, who embodied the legendary Captain Kirk in the Star Trek series. Brand guests intended to maintain public interest around these flights, against the backdrop of competition between several private companies.
Jeff Bezos’ great competitor in this area is Virgin Galactic, who offers a similar experience in suborbital flight. But Blue Origin also has the ambition to go further and wishes to position itself on the orbit flight market and compete with Elon Musk SpaceX.
In January, she succeeded in her first non-accommodation orbital flight, thanks to a much more powerful launcher named New Glenn.
