Broadcasting journalists Gayle King and singer Katy Perry made a brief journey into space on Monday on a flight run by Jeff Bezos’s private company, Blue Origin. This was the first time All-women crew Was in space since 1963. Their flight, but Blue generation‘S New Shepard RocketLasted for 10 minutes and 21 seconds and flew from 8.30 pm local time from the launch site One of Blue Origin in West Texas.
After the flight, King pulled out of the crew capsule and said, “I would like to do a moment with the ground just before kneeling.” Raja said that Perry sang “What a Wonderful World” during the flight. After returning to Earth, Perry said, “It is not about my song songs, it’s about a collective energy.” It was the 11th human flight for the new Shepard program, which had earlier flew 52 people, which included repeated astronauts, which are 100 km above the international level recognized space, above the Karman line.
Flights on the new Shepard rocket, which provide a few minutes of weightlessness, do not have a pilot. Family members and friends of flight passengers gathered in Texas to see the launch, including Opra Winfrey, King’s close friends. Matrik Chris Jenner of the Kardashian family, and his daughter, were also in Kardashian, crowd. Bezos’ fiance, a former broadcast journalist, Lauren Sanchez, was also in the flight, called the NS -31 mission. The wedding of this couple is allegedly scheduled for this heat in Venice. Others were Aisha Bowe, a former rocket scientist in NASA; Karian Flynn, a filmmaker; And Amanda Guyen, a bioostronautics research scientist and prominent lawyer for those who survived sexual assault. Guyen was the first Vietnamese woman to go into space.
But some critics noted the suggestion that all women crew represented a moment of feminist progress. The new Shepard Program, the centerpiece of Blue Origin’s Space Tourism Business, is an Avenue to be rich, powerful and well connected to the space. Olivia Mun, an actress, called the trip “a little glutonus” this month. “What are you going to do in space?”
