Posted on 04/17/2025 9:11:52 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
NASA scientists recently conducted an important experiment namely what happens when you send a group of airheads into space. Here we focus in on one of the subjects of this experiment, Katy Perry, and the result is pure comedy gold.
I wish they’d send my neighbor’s dog. Or maybe the neighbor would be better.
like that dude’s narration was any better!! Lmao...
Being strapped into a strap-on and being ejaculated into sub-orbital space does not make you an astronaut.
So are you saying no Ticker Tape Parade?
This was not stunning and brave. It was a cunning publicity stunt involving a glorified 6 Flags ride. Completely ignorable by serious people, other than as a target of derision.
Here's a graphic you will not see from our fake media. Is there a name there notable by its absence? If you said Blue Origin, you win!
Did they ever figure out the whole door opening fiasco? That was weird
Designating them as “crew” and not “passengers” is an important legal distinction for liability and certification reasons, nothing more. Your designation as payload is correct from a practical accuracy standpoint. Nothing any of them did was going to materially affect the carnival ride.
I’m going into my safe space as the incoming replies to your anti-pooch post start up.
LOL! “It wasn’t me!”
Katy Perry is one of the best examples of why the 19th amendment was a bad idea.
Just before the rocket reached its apogee, a voice should have made the following announcement to the capsule airheads:
"Attention. This is Ground Control. We have detected a problem with the heat shield. The good news is that it you still have it so you won't instantly burn alive. The bad news is you will end up burning slowly and painfully. This process will begin in three minutes. Have a good day and enjoy the rest of your flight!"
Best guess is that the capsule door “could be” unlocked and opened from the inside by the passengers if the capsule was at ground pressure (air inside = air outside).
BUT it was NOT scheduled or planned to be opened until Bezos unlocked it from the outside and opened as a dramatic moment for his publicity stunt..
Perry, on the inside, unbuckled and jumped up and opened it anyway. Realized her mistake (No dress rehearsal during their 45 minutes of “training” ? “Remembered” her escape training during that 45 minutes of training?) Regardless, Perry got back on script, and shut the door in his face as Bezos was falling down into hole.
(What would Laz have shut?)
Perhaps they panicked thinking that they wee sinking into the ocean so they leaned on their expertise and blew the hatch open.?
Alan Shepard only spent about 15 minutes in space before coming down.
Yuri Gagarin spent more time than that. About 1968, Science and Mechanics magazine claimed the Russian space flight was a hoax.
No, Yuri Gagarin did orbit, but his flight was very, very short. And very dangerously close to failure even when it was cut short.
Technically, neither he, nor the Soviet female cosmonaut, nor any of the earliest Soviet cosmonauts actually “landed: in their capsule.
Instead, after re-entry they set their main parachutes, popped the capsule door, and hit their ejection seat rocket. They ALL parachuted down - but that “inconvenient truth” was very deliberately hidden from the flight books and record books. She was a female parachute champion, NOT a test pilot as her selection criteria. (Well, obviously, also a female pilot, but her comparative parachute experience was most important.
Depending on their flight year, several different Soviet cosmonauts did die in re-entry. ALL of their early animals died.
Later in his career as a true astronaut, Shepard walked on the moon. Didn’t he hit a golf ball while on the lunar surface?
Perry spent FAR more time talking about it than doing it. To me the highlight of the 10 minute flight came when Perry flicked her hair out before hopping to the ground.
PS: Her false eyelashes were immaculate.
Did that thing even have a heat shield? Seriously, it doesn’t look like it saw any re-entry heating, the nice white paint job looks pristine after landing.
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