Katy Perry and five other women made a brief trip in space on Monday on a Blue Origin rocket, the Spatial company of the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos. This is the first flight in the 100% female space since that, solo, of the Soviet Valentina Terechkova in 1963.
The famous American singer Katy Perry made a brief entirely female trip in space on Monday, an adventure offered by the multimillionaire Jeff Bezos and reserved for a few privileged. An essential artist of American pop, Katy Perry flew aboard a Blue Origin rocket, the space company of the Amazon founder, which took it more than 100 kilometers above sea level, before returning to the earth.
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Katy Perry alongside five other women
She embarked alongside five other women, including Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée. The takeoff took place in western Texas shortly after 8:30 am local (1:30 p.m. GMT). The fully automated rocket took off vertically and the capsule detached in flight, before falling back on earth braked by parachutes and a retropropulser.
This is the first flight in the 100% female space since that, solo, the Soviet Valentina Terechkova in 1963. It is also the eleventh inhabited Suborbital 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.
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-An adventure “for (his) daughter Daisy”
In a recent interview with the magazine ElleKaty 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 her 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 gurlspowered on the international scene by her hit I kissed a girl released in 2008.
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.”
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During this brief trip as a weightlessness, Katy Perry was 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.
Blue Origin wants to compete with SpaceX
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.
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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.
