Posted on 04/14/2025 5:52:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Six women, including pop star Katy Perry, are scheduled to be launched into space for about 11 minutes on Monday on a Blue Origin rocket, a lift-off that would mark the first all-female spaceflight since 1963, according to the company.
The window for the latest New Shepard rocket launch is expected to open on Monday morning at about 8:30 a.m. CDT, according to Blue Origin.
long with Perry, the crew includes Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos' journalist fiance, Lauren Sanchez, who is also a helicopter pilot.
Journalist Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn round out the flight crew, according to Blue Origin.
The flight will last only around 11 minutes and reach a height of about 65 miles above Earth. The Kármán line, considered the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space, is 62 miles, so Perry and her fellow crew members will not actually be launched into orbit.
The most-recent all-female spaceflight was Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963, Blue Origin said.
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My guess. Flesh Gordon (1974).
True story about Katy Perry.
She said she used to cry at night as her teenage years began, praying to God each night “Don’t let me be flat chested like this all my life. Don’t make me embarrassed like this.”
She said her prayers were answered later and “How did I know I’d have them shifting up against my ears if I got into bed too fast someday. They just kept growing.”
RE: reference to anatomy in microgravity....
Think of the ad possibilities:
“When I returned from space I knew I couldn’t rely on the lack of gravity for lift so I bought this brand with no uncomfortable underwires but still with the out of this world shaping I need for Earth bound activities and fashion.”
For those women, I’m sure that was pretty true. I guess they had that stuff strapped down.
You’re on a roll tonight.
Lift and separate, just like my rocket does.
We all need to rise to the occasion.
Space Nullity (with apologies to David Bowie)
[Instrumental Intro]
[Intro]
Ground Control to Katy Perry
Ground Control to Katy Perry
Take your Denon PerL earbuds out and put your Dolce & Gabbana on
(Ten) Ground Control (Nine) to Katy Perry (Eight, seven)
(Six) Commencing (Five) countdown, engines on
(Four, three, two)
Check ignition (One) and may Gaia's love (Lift off) be with you
[Verse 1]
This is Ground Control to Katy Perry
You've really made the grade
And the influencers want to know choice in twenty-eight
Now it's time to come back home
This is Katy Perry to Ground Control
I'm doing nothing, it’s a boor
And Gayle King’s passing gas in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
[Chorus]
[Instrumental Break]
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