Pop princess Katy Perry has just returned from a quick trip to space*, one of an all-female crew, as part of (eww!) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin programme.
I mean, you would if you could. Wouldn’t you?
She Kissed The Sky And She Liked It
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(Ballboy – A Day In Space)
This is the correct answer.
Going to space with Jeff Bezos (or in one of his spaceships that doesn’t quite go into space) has all of the appeal of going for a drink with Brewdog’s resident knobhead James Watt. No thanks.
Who would you go to space with, should they acquire the necessary technology?
Would you want to go at all?
I think I’d like to go, but I can’t offhand think of any billionaires I like to go with.
NASA, unless Trump has abolished it…? If I had to choose a crew, I’d pick boring people like scientists!
Maybe the rockets could be put to good use.
From Hitchhikers ……
Obviously not crashing on Earth this time.
The A and the C Arks never actually departed, as having got rid of all the useless people on the B Ark, the planet’s society was deemed to be just about right.
Unfortunately the entire remaining population was then wiped out by a virus caught from an unsanitised telephone handset.
Of course, I forgot.
No, I wouldn’t.
Very witty headline, Sewer.
There is not much that would tempt me to venture into space.
Of course if I could have blasted into space 40 years ago with the Bangles, I’d have been ready to tread boldly.
But let’s not forget all the pitfalls of inter-galactic dating….
Space Girl, care of the Imagined Village
No ta. A couple of proper astronauts maybe. It’s just a promo stunt anyway.
You may have noticed that if them gals don’t look sexy in a jumpsuit, they ain’t gonna be riding in Jeff’s spacecraft.
Says something about him, and what it’s actually about, doesn’t it.
I have no problem with random billionaire narcissists shooting bozos into space for four minutes my issue is with letting them return to terra firma.
Arf
Bozos or Bezos? 😉
Those jumpsuits were rather fetching, though. Probably not the desired takeaway from this endeavour, I’ll grant you.
I guess the right outfits are a prerequisite to getting Jeff’s giant space todger to rise to the occasion.
I read about the design of the suits today.
https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/katy-perrys-spacesuit-who-designed-the-astronaut-gear-for-her-careers-first-all-female-space-flight-1.500094211
For clarity Bezos was not on board himself yesterday.
I watched the whole thing live. It was impressive, especially the booster landing upright in its target circle.
Katy Perry had promised to sing in space, it seems, but luckily we lost comms while they were up there.
There is MSNBC news footage of the capsule returning to earth with a live feed of sound from inside.
Basically it’s genuinely terrified screaming,
Perhaps Katy had offered to give ’em a song after all.
Arf. He’s here all week.
Try the veal
Surprising, when they’d been so well-prepared for the journey. One of them had apparently listened to a Carl Sagan audiobook and read about string theory.
Presumably silicone isn’t explosive in space.
Or as @NYTimes called it; ‘One Giant Stunt for Womankind’. All that money and all the billionaires want to do is live forever and go into space.
I didn’t think Bezos was particularly tall…
Yet another example of people channelling the language of identity politics to lend credence to their own vacuous narcissism. The 2020 Imagine video on literal rocket fuel 🚮
If that capsule had (God forbid) disintegrated on re-entry, Jeff Bezos would have been lying low this week, wouldn’t he?
I have to say I can’t remember this level of opprobrium being flung at William Shatner for doing basically the same thing…
Is it because he has a big bassoon?
Bezos hadn’t yet gone fully MAGA, back in ’21.
Both of these were stunts and ego-trips for young Jeffy, but they were also proofs of the Blue Origin technology, which Bezos hopes will get him lucrative satellite-launching contracts.
Shatner quietly accepted the trip to space and came back stuttering to express the feeling of dread it instilled in him while his idiot benefactor popped champagne corks beside him.
He didn’t design his own jumpsuit, proclaim his trip a victory for the species, express his intention to bring glamour to space and “put the ass in astronaut”, or come back wanking on about the divine feminine. His trip was also gross, but he was nowhere near as obnoxious about going on it. He didn’t seek as much attention, so he received less.
Marina Hyde, as ever, has the last word.
What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/15/lauren-sanchez-katy-perry-space-blue-origin-female-flight?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other