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Blue Origin crew safely back on Earth after all-female space flight
BBC ^ | 4/14 | Maddie Molloy, Victoria Gill

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 ...


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To: nickcarraway
According to Google, you need to be 2,285 miles above the Earth to see the entire planet PLUS the almost total blackness of deep space in one glance.

No doubt the rocket thrill ride and the view from 62 miles is pretty cool, but not necessarily worth risking your life for.

61 posted on 04/14/2025 3:52:20 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: PIF

LOL. there sure are a lot of jokes about an all woman spacecraft.....


62 posted on 04/14/2025 3:54:09 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: nickcarraway

If these bimbos were “crew” then airline passengers are crew.


63 posted on 04/14/2025 3:54:12 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Trump may be one of our greatest Presidents, if they don't kill him first.)
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To: adorno

She kissed an Orion slave girl.


64 posted on 04/14/2025 3:58:22 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: nickcarraway
Can there be any greater affirmation of womynhood than an all female crew catching a ride on Bezos' giant phallus?


65 posted on 04/14/2025 3:59:30 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder how many empowered wymen designed the thing?


66 posted on 04/14/2025 4:02:17 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: cableguymn
Yep, they were just ballast.

Still wondering here about the shape of the rocker/capsule—-looks like, uhhhh,,,,,never mind.

67 posted on 04/14/2025 4:09:11 PM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: nickcarraway

Half of Lynyrd Skynyrd dies in a plane crash. Just my luck Katy Perry goes to space and nothing happens....


68 posted on 04/14/2025 4:12:46 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: nickcarraway

How did they ever agree on what color curtains to hang? Or more importantly, what the temperature should be inside the craft???


69 posted on 04/14/2025 4:21:34 PM PDT by voicereason (When a bartender can join Congress and become a millionaire...there’s a problem.)
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To: nickcarraway

Blue Origin tourists…. NOW it reads correctly.


70 posted on 04/14/2025 4:23:26 PM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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71 posted on 04/14/2025 4:24:01 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: cableguymn

I’ve gone tandem skydiving a couple times. I’m not a skydiver. I was basically cargo.


72 posted on 04/14/2025 4:39:57 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: nickcarraway
Mudd's women without the drug.


73 posted on 04/14/2025 4:46:58 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: nickcarraway

One giant step backward for womankind!


74 posted on 04/14/2025 4:49:37 PM PDT by parmamenian (an)
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To: PIF

Flying monkey cage.


75 posted on 04/14/2025 4:58:13 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: volare737

I think it was a very fitting shape lol


76 posted on 04/14/2025 4:59:13 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: nickcarraway

They couldn’t get chimps to pay them so they went the next most intelligent hominid.


77 posted on 04/14/2025 5:03:22 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: nickcarraway

What do you care what he does with his money? Elon launched a car into space.


78 posted on 04/14/2025 5:07:20 PM PDT by Mr. K (no consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: nickcarraway

What a waste of rocket fuel.


79 posted on 04/14/2025 5:20:10 PM PDT by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: Fireone

They were passengers and not a astronaut crew. No different then jet airplane passengers.


80 posted on 04/14/2025 5:22:44 PM PDT by Pol-92064
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