Katy Perry goes to space with an all-women crew and will sing in zero gravity
Singer Katy Perry is heading to space as part of a Blue Origin mission, where she promised to sing in orbit. The flight will be the culmination of her long-held dream.
Photo: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0
American singer Katy Perry will take part in the suborbital flight NS-31 by Blue Origin, the company owned by Jeff Bezos.
The rocket launch is scheduled for today from Texas.
Along with Perry, who chose the call sign "Feather" and has already tried on a blue space suit, there will be five more women on board: TV host Gayle King, producer Kerianne Flynn, former NASA engineer Aisha Bowe, human rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and Bezos’s fiancée — Lauren Sanchez.
The capsule with six seats will rise to an altitude of about 100 km, where the crew will experience 10 minutes of weightlessness before landing in the desert.
On Instagram, Perry showed her seat and promised to sing in space. For the 40-year-old artist, this is the fulfillment of a long-standing dream. She noted that believing in dreams makes them come true.
Earlier, it was reported that the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with four astronauts successfully splashed down off the coast of Florida, completing the Crew-9 mission, during which the crew maintained operations aboard the International Space Station for several months.