Pop star Katy Perry could have to replace the lyrics to her hit music Firework to, “Baby, you are an astronaut.” On Monday, Perry turned one in all the newest celebrities to go to house. Author and former journalist Lauren Sanchez was additionally a part of Blue Origin’s profitable NS-31 mission.
Aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics analysis scientist Amanda Nguyễn, movie producer Kerianne Flynn and CBS host Gayle King (Oprah Winfrey’s bestie) crammed out the roster for the all-female crew. Winfrey attended the launch as an observer.
The crew rolled to the launchpad in Rivian electrical vans and took an elevator as much as board the crew capsule. Bezos personally escorted them to the rocket. The flight lasted about 11 minutes. Perry sang What a Wonderful World throughout the flight, although uneven audio made it tough to listen to the crew at occasions throughout the livestream.
This was the first all-female spaceflight since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s historic solo spaceflight in 1963. Tereshkova was the first girl in house.
Bezos faceplant, Wendy’s teases Perry
Sanchez is the fiancee of Jeff Bezos, founding father of Amazon and Blue Origin. He was ready to greet the crew at the touchdown web site, and apparently stepped in a small gap and fell, nearly touchdown on his face. Social-media replayed the second time and again.
Wrote one X consumer, “Excuse me whereas I watch Jeff Bezos faceplant 1,000,000 occasions.”
And for some motive, fast-food chain Wendy’s, identified for its witty tweets, took goal at Perry after she landed. The firm tweeted a photograph of Perry kissing the floor after returning to Earth and captioned it “I kissed the floor and that i preferred it.” (Perry’s 2008 music, “I Kissed a Girl,” contained the line “I kissed a woman and I preferred it.”)
Then, when one other X consumer requested, “She was solely up there for like 10mins, proper?” the Wendy’s account responded snarkily with, “do not brief change her it was 11 minutes.”
Watch Katy Perry go to house
The New Shepard spacecraft launched from West Texas at about 8:30 a.m. CT on Monday. Relive the mission by way of Blue Origin’s livestream replay on YouTube.
Watch this: Watch Blue Origin Successfully Land Its First All-Female Star-Studded Spaceflight
Does New Shepard attain house?
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard launches from Texas.
There’s an ongoing debate about what represents house. For instance, everybody agrees the International Space Station is in house however industrial rocket rides like what Blue Origin operates fall right into a grey zone. One benchmark is the Karman line, an imagined line 62 miles above the Earth’s floor.
NASA acknowledges that “there’s actually no clear boundary between the place Earth’s environment ends and outer house begins,” however says most scientists acknowledge the Karman line as the transition level to house. So until you wish to get right into a nitpicky argument, Perry and the remainder of the crew made a short go to to house throughout their mission.
The crew skilled weightlessness after the spacecraft handed the Karman line. The return journey concerned a mild parachute-assisted touchdown of the crew capsule.
This was the eleventh human flight for the New Shepard program. Blue Origin had beforehand flown 52 individuals into house, together with Star Trek’s William Shatner, Good Morning America host Michael Strahan and Bezos.