Posted on 04/14/2025 2:15:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Pop star Katy Perry and five other women safely returned to Earth after reaching space aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket.
The singer was joined by Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sánchez and CBS presenter Gayle King, who said a highlight of the flight was hearing Perry sing Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World".
After landing back on Earth, Perry said she felt "super connected to life" and "so connected to love".
The flight lasted around 11 minutes and took the six women more than 100km (62 miles) above Earth, crossing the internationally recognised boundary of space and giving them a few moments of weightlessness.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Meanwhile, over at SpaceX.....
Two days ago
“”SpaceX completes two launches today””
SpaceX continued its relentless launch pace today, launching twice from opposite coasts.
First the company placed a National Reconnaissance Office surveillance satellite into orbit, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Vandenberg in California. The first stage completed its 24th flight, landing on a drone ship in the Pacific.
Next SpaceX launched another 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 configured for direct-to-cell capabilities, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Kennedy in Florida. The first stage completed its 10th flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
Then, yesterday....
“SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites”
Continuing its relentless launch pace, SpaceX this evening successfully launched another 27 Starlink satellites, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The first stage completed its 27th flight, landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic. This is a new record for flights by a Falcon 9 booster, exceeding the space shuttle Endeavour’s record of 25 by two, and trailing the space shuttle Columbia by only one. The record for most reflights by a spacecraft is presently 39 by the space shuttle Discovery, followed by the shuttle Atlantis at 33. Expect several Falcon 9 boosters to exceed these numbers in the next two years.
The leaders in the 2025 launch race:
43 SpaceX
19 China
5 Rocket Lab
5 Russia
SpaceX now leads the rest of the world in successful launches, 43 to 33.
Here are the links to the original articles above:
Sorry about that...
At the pinnacle in flight, they screamed, and due to lack of any air up there, nobody heard them.
I don’t see this as a positive thing, either-more like a misogynist’s insult to female astronauts. These rich, entitled women gasping, giggling and being weightless for a minute or two on a 10 minute trip in space looks like just a silly publicity stunt.
Obviously, not one of those silly females have the IQ or mental stamina of our real female astronauts to get through even a day in flight to or at the space station-they would have a psychotic meltdown as soon as they couldn’t find a mirror to check their makeup. To pretend this was anything but a tourist trip for a few rich women was a really bad idea, Jeff Bezos/Blue Origins...
No worries.
I’ll bet that left a huge carbon footprint.
“I heard they couldn’t judge the distance properly when landing and bumped into a curb.”
LOL!!!!
Being a space tourist does not make one a crew member.
You can bet that the actual crew weren’t allowing Katy anywhere near the controls
In space no one has to parallel park.
A PR stunt similar to NASA sending up a congresscritter!
Just as useful!
No but regulations do.
Blue Origin can not legally fly passengers. So to be on board you have to be a “crew member”. It’s just like the billionaires on the Titan submersible. They were all crew members - mission specialists. It’s just a loophole to get around government regulations.
the post story today about the real Katy Perry .
The nun story is just as awful .
Well, yes, it was a successful flight, a successful return from space.
But, then again, they didn’t have to parallel park the spacecraft between two arms while landing.
They got four parking tickets.
and no one cares
Did they use auto-pilot to park?
Heck. I could give any of these a thrill and it would only take me a few minutes. Would cost less too. ;-)
Ah, another story from the “Who Gives a Shit?” file. Thanks for sharing.
Meanwhile, once they got here, they couldn’t park it.
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