Fortunately Katy Perry didn’t turn into a literal firework — however she has sparked an explosion of mockery on-line.
On Monday, the pop star was a part of an all-female crew, which additionally included Gayle King and Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, that briefly launched to house from West Texas on certainly one of Bezo’s Blue Origin rockets, named New Shepard.
The opposite girls included in NS-31’s all-female crew had been former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyễn and movie producer Kerianne Flynn.
The flight, which reached above the Kármán line — or the internationally acknowledged boundary of house, which is about 62 miles above Earth’s floor — lasted 10 minutes and 21 seconds, per NPR.
After a secure touchdown, Perry emerged from the rocket’s capsule like she was Matt Damon in “The Martian” somewhat than some random celeb who received to journey on certainly one of Mr. Amazon’s large boy toys for a couple of minutes.
As quickly because the “Roar” singer stepped out onto the steps of the capsule, she held a small daisy proudly above her head in a tribute to her 4-year-old daughter, Daisy Dove.
After basking within the second for just a few beats, she jumped from the capsule’s steps, knelt down and kissed the bottom, making a “muah” sound.
A number of moments later, King emerged from the capsule and pulled the identical stunt by dramatically kissing the bottom as effectively.
Contemplating that the ladies had been solely in house for about 11 minutes, folks felt the “Dark Horse” singer’s response to being again on Earth was a bit over-the-top.


The concept that the launch was a glorified business for Bezo’s house tourism firm isn’t that a lot of a stretch being that the launch was closely marketed as one large leap for ladykind. It was the primary all-female spaceflight since 1963, when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova launched into house by herself, making her the primary girl in house, in line with The Related Press.
If the dated “girl power” vibe of the launch wasn’t obnoxious sufficient, King additionally confirmed to reporters that Perry sang whereas they had been in zero-gravity.
“Katy sang, ‘What a Wonderful World,’” King stated. “Isn’t that nice? …We’d been asking her to sing all the time, and she wouldn’t. And she wouldn’t! Everybody said, ‘Sing ‘Roar,’ sing ‘Firework!’ And she said, ‘It’s not about me, I wanted to talk about the world.’”
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