Singer Katy Perry and a group of five other women, that included the fiancee of Jeff Bezos Lauren Sánchez and the journalist Gayle King, completed on Monday a brief flight to the outer space in a Blue Origin aircraft, the company that has promised to revolutionize flights beyond the earth’s atmosphere.
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The group completed it The scientists Amanda Nguyen and Aisha Bowe and the film producer Kerianne Flynn, which They integrated a totally feminine crew that was not seen since 1963. The six women successfully made the flight to 100 kilometers from Earth to the Kárman line, the boundary between the atmosphere and the space, in one of the new vehicles of the company of Bezos.
Sánchez, formed as a pilot, was in charge of organizing the trip and took care that they had a fashionista touch: uniforms designed by the firm Manse, co -founded by the Dominican Fernando García, who also designs for Oscar de la Renta.
The ship, similar to a rocket, in which Perry was going and the other celebrities did not have any pilot thanks to an automatic navigation system. The vehicle left the facilities of the company of Corn Ranch, Texas, a farm owned by the founder of Amazon that Since 2021 it is the operations center of the space company. The flight lasted about 10 minutes and in one of its highest points it reached an acceleration three times higher at the speed of light.
For the interpreter the tour served as a preamble for its world tour
Previously, the company had already made similar flights with personalities on board as the actor of ‘Star Trek’ William Shatner, astronaut Ala Shepard and Bezos himself.
How much did the trip to Katy Perry’s space cost?
On the company website founded by Bezos, costs are not openly established; However, they can reach millionaire figures, as happened with one that was sold at an auction in 2021, where the person who won paid US $ 28 millionObserver reported. In contrast, Shatner, famous for his character in the series whose plot takes place in space, did not pay anything for his place in the ship, according to the same publication.
To manage one of the commercial flights to the space offered by Blue Origin First A form must be filled and leaving a tank of US $ 150,000 that can open the doors to space. From there, the price for the flight can rise. For example, at the end of 2021 Another passenger paid only US $ 1 millionaccording to Tim Chrisman, co -founder of Foundation for the Future, a non -profit organization that promotes the development of infrastructure in space.
So far, space trips cannot be regulated by the Federal Administration Administration (FAA) of the United States, an agency responsible for safety and aviation regulations.
