A sassy crew, a billionaire and a celeb circus within the desert. House missions do not get any weirder.
However that is the brand new world of Blue Origin and its publicity machine.
It brought together six women – all on the high of their sport – and dressed them in designer flight fits. One in all them, singer Katy Perry, stated they “put the ass into astronauts”.
They launched in a rocket called New Shepard, rising to 65 miles above the Earth, the place they unbuckled and floated.
Perry held a daisy – a tribute to her daughter, who’s named after the flower.
And there was wild pleasure over the sight of the moon. Did one in all them actually say it was their goddess?
In the meantime, again on planet Earth there was a star-studded gathering.
There have been a few Kardashians. And Oprah Winfrey was there too, protecting her eyes, barely in a position to look.
Then the astronauts had been again, launched from the capsule by Jeff Bezos, the mega-rich founding father of the corporate and fiance of Lauren Sanchez, one other well-known title within the crew.
It was all somewhat surreal, and possibly it can have attracted an viewers who would not usually watch an area launch.
It is exceptional that this was the primary all-female house mission in additional than 60 years.
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Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the primary girl in house.
Round 100 have adopted her – not least Suni Williams, recently back from her extended nine-month stay on the Worldwide House Station.
4 minutes of weightlessness as an area vacationer does not actually examine.
However Perry hopes the mission will encourage extra women and girls – not least her daughter – to shoot for the celebs.
Maybe then an all-female crew would not be so newsworthy.