{"id":281808,"date":"2025-04-14T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/katy-perry-becomes-first-artist-to-sing-in-space-in-landmark-all-female-mission\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:51:08","slug":"katy-perry-becomes-first-artist-to-sing-in-space-in-landmark-all-female-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/katy-perry-becomes-first-artist-to-sing-in-space-in-landmark-all-female-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Perry becomes first artist to sing in space in landmark all-female mission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Katy Perry has blasted off to space along with five other women in the first all-female space crew in over sixty years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Firework singer lifted off from West Texas on a Blue Origin<\/a><\/strong> rocket before becoming the first artist to sing in space.<\/p>\n

Flying alongside Perry were author Lauren Sanchez, the fiancee of Blue Origin owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos<\/a><\/strong>, journalist and TV presenter Gayle King, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.<\/p>\n

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The star-studded crew were supported on the ground by family and friends including Kris Jenner, Khloe Kardashian<\/a><\/strong> and Oprah Winfrey, who said she had “never been more proud” of her friend, King.<\/p>\n

“There’s only one time all the women are going up for the first time,” Oprah said she told her friend when urging her to go on the flight, telling her she’d regret turning down the opportunity.<\/p>\n

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The crew were weightless for just four minutes after passing the Karman line, a 62-mile-high boundary that is internationally recognised as the boundary of space.<\/p>\n

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They could be heard screaming as they began to feel weightless, and told each other to look at the incredible views of the moon.<\/p>\n

As the crew were leaving space, Perry started to sing What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong.<\/p>\n

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Asked why she chose that song, she said: “It’s not about me or about me singing my songs, it was about a collective energy in there.<\/p>\n

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“It’s about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it.”<\/p>\n

She confirmed she will be writing a song about the experience.<\/p>\n

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Three parachutes on their capsule opened up to bring them safely back down to Earth and just before they landed, an air cushion blew a cloud of dust up in the west Texas desert, giving a dramatic-looking touchdown.<\/p>\n

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“Excited as I am, I’ll be very glad when we come back down,” said self-confessed nervous flier King before liftoff.<\/p>\n

When she exited the shuttle, the presenter kissed the floor and said: “Thank you, Jesus”.<\/p>\n

She said it was “oddly quiet” in space, and it reminded her that people needed to “do better and be better” on Earth.<\/p>\n

“It was the most incredible experience of my life to be up there and see such vast darkness in space and look down on our planet,” said Flynn, through tears.<\/p>\n

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“The moon was so beautiful and I feel like that was a special gift just for me,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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