Those of you on the lookout for innovative ways of setting fire to a mound of surplus cash will have been keeping a close eye on the escapades of Katy Perry and her fellow blue-suited all-women space crew as they took off in Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket on Monday.
Together, Perry and Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sánchez, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn and former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe spent a landmark moment (well, landmark 11 minutes) hovering up some 100km above Earth before coming back down – all in one piece with hair and makeup intact. Praise be for space tourism, your gateway to dizzying heights of fame! Literally!
What does it entail?
Do not ask how much all of this costs, because no one will tell you – not anyone from Blue Origin, anyway. The company does not publicly communicate the cost of its extraterrestrial adventures, but according to the BBC, you would need to put down a deposit coming up to $150,000 should you wish to explore it as a viable option. If this current economy, if you yearn to witness the Earth’s curvature first hand and ache to swish your hair around like a mermaid in zero gravity, your most realistic option would be to find a reasonable way of kicking Sánchez out of the picture and usurping her position.
