By WILIAM HUNTER
Social media users have slammed Katy Perry and Blue Origin – and say their space launch was nothing more than a ‘joyride for the super-rich’.
Perry, Lauren Sanchez, and four others completed their all-female mission to space aboard Jeff Bezos‘ Blue Origin rocket this afternoon.
The A-list crew travelled for 11 minutes, reaching an altitude of 62 miles (100km) and crossing the Karman Line, the official boundary of space.
However, commenters have branded the mission ‘ridiculous’, and say it is nothing more than a ‘publicity stunt’.
Dr Gareth Dorrian, a space scientist from the University of Birmingham, told MailOnline: ‘Letâs call it what it is and not tell ourselves that it is contributing meaningfully to science or space exploration.
‘I am afraid I do still think these flights are essentially just joyrides for the super-rich.’
While Katy Perry and her fellow crewmates did technically enter space, not everyone is convinced they deserve the title ‘astronauts’ as Blue Origin insists.
On X, formerly Twitter, one commenter wrote: ‘They’re not astronauts…. I think real astronauts would be offended at that. They’re celebrities sat on their bums.’
On social media, commenters slammed the mission and complained that the crew were not real astronautsÂ
Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission launched from the company’s Launch Site One about 30 miles north of Van Horn, Texas, at 14:30 BST (09:30) local time.
On board were Jeff Bezos’ fiancĂ© Lauren SĂĄnchez, pop star Katy Perry, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, activist Amanda Nguyen, and former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe.
The New Shepard Rocket carried the capsule to the edge of space at nearly twice the speed of sound before detaching and allowing the crew to experience a few minutes of weightlessness.
During that period the crew capsule crossed the Karman Line, technically passing from Earth’s atmosphere into space…
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