Blue Origin rocket blasts off on all-female space tourism flight

The pop superstar Katy Perry and five other women have certainly completed a space flight of safe on board the multi -million dollar tourism rocket Jeff Bezos.

He joined the fiancee of the founder of Blue Origin, Lauren Sánchez, the journalist Gayle King, the former rocket scientist of the NASA Aisha Bowe, who now directs an engineering firm, the scientist research scientist Amanda Nguyen and the film producer Kerianne Flynn on the 10 -minute flight.

The new Shepard rocket rose on the rapid trip from above and down from western Texas outside the space about 105 kilometers to 8.30 am (11.30 pm aest) today.

The chillidos of joy exploded from inside the rocket while the women moved away from the earth at supersonic speeds, exclaiming the size of the moon almost full.

The reusable rocket landed in the desert about seven minutes after takeoff, followed a few minutes later by the capsule, accompanied by more exclamations of happiness.

Perry and King said the pop star sang some Louis Armstrong’s bars What a wonderful world After the women returned to their seats after the zero gravity period.

“It’s not about me. It’s not about singing my songs. It is a collective energy there,” he said about Blue Origin’s live broadcast.

“It’s about us. It’s about making space for future women and occupying space and belonging.

“And it’s about this wonderful world we see and appreciate.”

Blue Origin announced to the crew, selected by Sánchez, in February.

“When Jeff went up and went down again and was very excited by everything,” he said in an interview about Blue Origin’s coverage.

“Within 24 hours, he said: ‘Would you ever go up?’ I was like, ‘What? “I thought,’ Yes, I would go up ‘.

“And at that exact moment, I said: ‘Could you take all women?’ And he says: “That is a great idea.”

After the Touchdown, Bezos opened the hatch and hugged his fiancee Sánchez when he left. Perry held a Margarita in the air, partly in tribute to her daughter of the same name, before kissing the earth.

“Margaritas are common flowers, but they grow through any condition,” he said. They grow through cement. They grow through cracks, grow through the walls.

“They are resistant. They are powerful. They are strong. They are everywhere.”

The stellar power was not limited to the rocket itself, with members of the Kardashian and Oprah Winfrey family, CBS Tomorrow The best friend of the King of Coanfitrions, observing.

“[I’ve] I’ve never been proud because this is bigger than just going to space, “Winfrey said, before takeoff.

“… Every time we are on a flight, she is in the lap of anyone if there is the slightest turbulence, she has a real and real anxiety flying, and this is overcoming a fear wall, a barrier.

“It’s, I think it will be a cathartic in many ways to her.”

“I feel very grateful, punished and honored to be invited and included with this incredible group of women,” said Perry.

Blue Origin has flown to tourists in short jumps to space since 2021, after Bezos went up with her brother for the inaugural trip; Perry’s trip is the 11th human spatial flights of the company.

Some passengers have received free trips, while others have paid a considerable sum to experiment. The company declined to comment on who was paying the bill for the flight.

The trip has not been without criticism, more recently by actor Olivia Munn, who regretted the cost and advertising of the mission.

But Perry believes that a women’s team, the first from the solo space flight of Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, has historical ramifications. Only 14 percent of people who have gone to space so far have been women.

“It is an important moment for the future of commercial spaces and for humanity in general and for women everywhere,” he said.

“I simply feel that ‘put us in the coach.”

– Informed with Associated Press