Katy Perry heads to space Monday, she has been doing some ‘research’
Apr 11, 2025, 9:52 AM | Updated: 1:52 pm
Just days away from her first spaceflight, Katy Perry has been doing some research. She has been reading Carl Sagan, studying string theory.
I was wondering if string theory was important to know when you go into space, and this is what I could find. (Again, I am not a scientist, physicist or any type of -cist, but it is fascinating).
String theory, while currently a theoretical framework, could potentially have implications for spaceflight by offering new ways to think about space-time and its properties, potentially leading to faster-than-light travel or other revolutionary technologies. It’s important to note that these are theoretical possibilities and not established facts.
The launch is scheduled for Monday, April 14, at 8:30 a.m. CT, from Blue Origin’s launch site in Van Horn, Texas.
It will include six women: aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe; activist Amanda Nguyen; “CBS Mornings” host Gayle King; pop singer Katy Perry; film producer Kerianne Flynn; and Lauren Sánchez, an author, TV host turned philanthropist, and Bezos’s fiancée.
Blue Origin is touting it as the first all-female spaceflight since 1963, when the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space on a three-day solo mission.
Each spaceflight lasts about 11 minutes, taking passengers just past the Kármán line — 62 miles above Earth, which some international aviation and aerospace experts consider the threshold of space — allowing the crew to experience a few minutes of weightlessness.
The rocket will then descend back to Earth, with its single engine restarting to slow the booster down to just 6 mph for a controlled landing back on the launchpad. The capsule carrying the crew descends separately, deploying three parachutes for its landing nearby.
Since 2021, Blue Origin has carried a total of 52 people to the edge of space on 10 human flights. Bezos himself was part of the crew on Blue Origin’s first.
Also, Jenny and Friends has tickets to see Katy Perry starting Monday at 7:25 a.m.!
