This is the first flight in the 100% female space since that, solo, of the Soviet Valentina Terechkova in 1963.
This is also the eleventh, suborbital inhabited flight led by Blue Origin, which has already been offering these spatial tourism experiences for several years – whose price is not public – thanks to its New Shepard rocket.
During this experience of ten minutes in total, the six passengers exceeded the Karman line, which marks the space border 100 kilometers according to an international convention.
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 +”, declared the singer of “California Gurls”, propelled on the international scene by her hit “I Kissed a girl” released in 2008.
“Signs”
In a video published during the weekend on his Instagram account, the 40-year-old artist says he saw “signs” in the name of the space capsule, “tortoise” (“tortoise”), and of her form of “feather”, two nicknames that his mother gives her affectionately.
“There are no coincidences,” she says. “I am so grateful for these signs and to feel that something bigger than me guides the ship.”
During this brief trip as a weightlessness, Katy Perry will be surrounded by Kerianne Flynn, film producer, Amanda Nguyen, founder of an NGO engaged in the fight against sexual violence, of Aisha Bowe, a former scientist of NASA, and the Gayle King television.
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.
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