An estimated deposit at $ 150,000 (132,000 euros) plus the millionaire expenses not revealed from the ticket. That is what the six crew of the ‘New Shepard’ rocket have paid for about 10 minutes of flight. The ship has taken off from western Texas, United States, and has landed without incident after orbiting about 105 kilometers high.
The billionaire Jeff Bezos and his company Blue Origin are behind the launch of the singer’s space Katy Perry or the presenter Gayle King (CBS), along with his fiancee Lauren Sánchez. These shared the trip with Kerianne Flynn, film producer; Aisha BoweNASA and Amanda NguyenAstrophysics.
Blue Origin has not revealed how much it cost to finance the flight nor who paid what. This is the eleventh manned space flight of the company founded by Bezos, owner of Amazon or ‘The Washington Post’, in the year 2000. The trip took place two months before Sánchez and Bezos marry in Venice, and four years after the technological tycoon launched the first spatial tourist flight of Blue Origin.
The first (and until today) 100% female spatial crew took off in 1963 thanks to the former Soviet Union. But this data has a trick: lTo Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova took off alonethus becoming the first woman to fly over space after spending three days outside the planet Earth. Even after this last launch, Women barely represent 15% of the more than 700 people who have traveled to space.
Katy Perry is started by Louise Armstrong from space
“It is an important moment for the future of commercial spaces, for humanity and for women in general,” the Californian pop star ‘The Associated Press’ had declared last week.
The singer, in low commercial hours after sweeping the rankings in the early last decade, has squeezed her 10 minutes of space glory like nobody: has sung ‘What a Wonderful World‘, by Louis Armstrong, to his intergalactic companions (with or without his permission); has shown by the remote chamber of the ship The order of the songs of his next tour World Cup while challenging gravity and has kissed the Texano soil After landing, while proclaiming we have to take care of the earth. Of course, the architect of ‘Hot N Cold’ has happened to mention the high ecological cost of launching a rocket to space for a 10 -minute tourist trip, without apparent scientific purpose.
In the launch personalities have been present such as Oprah Winfrey -An intimate manage King- and several members of The Kardashian familyas well as several women who had previously flown on similar private flights. Most Blue Origin passengers -58 counting this last launch – have been entrepreneurs or scientists, television presenters or ‘youtubers’. The Russian space agency has also launched its quota of space tourists, starting with a Californian banker in 2001. Two decades later, a Russian actress filmed aboard the International Space Station.
Spacex, from Elon Musk, also sells several days trips to private customers. The first Spacex client in flying, the billionaire technology businessman Jared Isaacmanhas already made two releases And the first private space walk. If the American Senate confirms it, will become the next NASA administrator.
The cryptocurrency investor Chun Wangborn in China, has just returned from the first space flight that people have transported On the north and south poles. Wang took care of the entire Spacex bill – for him and three polar explorers – for an unleashed sum. “In this new and exciting was of commercial spatial flights, the dream of becoming an astronaut is no longer limited to a few chosen,” Wang said via X last week.
