Pop singer Katy Perry and presenter Lauren Sánchez, committed to billionaire Jeff Bezos, performed on Monday next to an exclusively feminine crew a suborbital flight aboard a Blue Origin rocket.
Perry, Sánchez and four other women took off from the west of the state of Texas at 08:30 local time. More than 100 kilometers of altitude in the New Shepard rocket of the aerospace company, owned by Bezos.
The completely automated rocket took off vertically and the capsule separated during the flight, before returning to the ground stopped by a parachute and a retropropulsor.
It was the first space flight composed exclusively of women, from the historic solo trip of the Cosmonauta and Soviet engineer Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963.
In addition to the American singer and Sánchez, the flight was composed of the co -present of the CBS Mornings program, Gayle King; the research scientist, Amanda Nguyen; The ex -specialist in NASA rockets, Aisha Bowe, and the film producer Kerianne Flynn.
In a recent interview with Elle magazine, Perry explained that he will undertake the adventure to inspire his daughter Daisy to “never set limits to her dreams.”
During the trip of about ten minutes in total from takeoff to the landing, the six passengers exceeded the Karman line, which is located 100 km above sea level, according to an international convention.
The women on board were able to take off from their seats and briefly experiment the microgravity condition.
This was the eleventh suborbital flight that Blue Origin performs, which since 2021 offers space tourism trips in its New Shepard rocket. The prices of these trips are not public. To date, Blue Origin has taken 52 people to the suborbital space in 10 manned missions.
Among the celebrities who in the past traveled aboard the New Shepard are William Shatner legendary actor of the Star Trek science fiction saga, and Jeff Bezos himself, who was on the inaugural flight with crew.
Bezos competes with the company Virgin Galactic, which also offers suborbital flights. But Blue Origin also has the ambition to go further in the flight market in orbit and compete with Space X, of the richest man in the world Elon Musk.
In January, he successfully completed his first unmanned orbital flight, using a much more powerful pitcher called New Glenn.
