Dressed to float and not only to shine, singer Katy Perry made history this Monday aboard a blue rocket. For eleven minutes – which included spatial silence, zero gravity and a list of floating songs – Perry led the first suborbital aerospace flight composed only of women since 1963.
The mission, baptized NS-31, took off at 8:30 am local time from western Texas. Perry was traveling inside; Lauren Sánchez, journalist and fiance of the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos; The CBS Mornings Gayle King co -presenter; the activist Amanda Nguyen; Aisha Bowe Aerospace Engineer; and the producer Kerianne Flynn.
They exceeded 100 km of altitude, crossing the line of karm – the limit of space according to the international convention – and returned to the earth in a capsule braking by parachute and retropropulorers.
“Going to Space is Amazing and I Wanted to Be a Model of Courage, Merit, and Bravery,” Perry said when he left the capsule. It was not just a personal achievement: it was a symbolic act, designed for all the girls who look at the sky and do not see limits.
During the flight, the artist sang “What a Wonderful World”, in the words of Gayle King, while holding a Margarita – favorite flor of her daughter – and showed a list of songs of her next tour, which begins in Mexico at the end of April.
“It’s not about me, it’s not about my songs,” said Perry. “The objective of the flight was to give a place to the women of the future.”
In a recent interview with Elle magazine, the singer explained that she launched this adventure to inspire her daughter Daisy to “Never Put Limits on Her Dreams.”
This flight marks the first space trip only for women since the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova orbit the earth alone in 1963. And although tourist flights like this have been criticized for their exclusivity and environmental footprint, the gesture of the female crew did not go unnoticed.
For Blue Origin, it is the eleventh suborbital flight with passengers since it launched the program in 2021. In total, 52 people have lived the experience. Among them, William Shatner, Star Trek icon, and Bezos himself, who participated in the inaugural flight.
This Monday’s flight, however, was not one more. It was a message to the world: the future of space is also written in a feminine voice.
With AFP information
