Katy Perry and five other women joined the next Blue Origin space flight, New Shepard-31 (NS-31).
Perry, an American singer-songwriter, is a global superstar. Her 2010 album “Teenage Dream” earned his five number one songs from a single album on the Billboard Hot 100, a success with which she shares Michael Jackson.
Her successes, such as “Firework”, “Roark” and “Dark Horse”, made her one of the best -selling musical artists of all time. Now, when she faces the biggest controversial In her career, she embarks on space.
Perry will be seal On the flight of Gayle King, co-host of CBS Mornings; Aisha Bowe, former scientist of NASA rockets; Amanda Nguyen, researcher in bioastronautics; Kerianne Flynn, producer of American film; And Lauren Sánchez, a award -winning journalist and fiancée at the Emmy Awards by Jeff Bezos.
Blue Origin, established by Bezos in 2000, leads the space tourism industry. The company’s mission is clear on its website: “We are considering a future where millions of people will live and work in space with a resolved objective: to restore and maintain the land, our blue origin.”
The NS-31 will be the 11th spatial tourist flight of the program and the 31st mission for the new Shepard rocket.
The mission marks a historic moment, because it will be the first entirely female space team since the Soviet astronaut Valentina Tereshkova solo space flight in 1963. The trip will last about 11 minutes and will move just after the Kármán Allocate in space, about 62 miles above sea level. No pilot will be on the ship.
Luxury Travel, like the new Missions of Blue Origin Shepard, offers opportunities available only to the richest people. Although it is not publicly disclosed, the cost of boarding the new Shepard should vary from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollar.
However, these luxury trips are not all fun and games. Oceangate, founded in 2009 by Stockton Rush and Guillermo Söhnlein, was an exploration company on the high seas. In 2021, the company began to take expeditions to the ruins of the Titanic.
In June 2023, a shipwreck trip ended with a tragedy when the Titan of Oceangate submersible imploded, killing passengers on board. Rush, Hamish Harding, Paul-Henry Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood and Dawood Suleman’s son were the people on board.
Opulent would be an appropriate word to describe this form of luxury travel. The term means “very comfortable and expensive”, as defined by Briticanna. This word is most generally associated with ostentatious demonstrations of wealth.
Commercial space trips and exploration in the deep sea open up an entirely new world to adventure research. However, the opulent nature of these trips limits these unique opportunities to life to a small subset of lucky individuals, such as Katy Perry.
Although some may like to live by proxy through public figures who embark on these trips, others can see this as an extended fracture between ordinary people and the A-Lukeers.
Like concert tickets, trips become more and more Dear. Making trips on the way or weekend getaway with friends becomes less a spontaneous activity and even more something that requires planning months in advance.
When Perry unleashes this spring, millions of people will watch. The question remains: will this shipment one day carry the average person?