After a long day of rehearsal for its next world tour,Katy Perrydecided to browse a few books to help him relax before going to bed.
“I listened to” Cosmos “by Carl Sagan and Lisais a book on string theory,” she recalls. “I have always been interested in astrophysics and I am interested in astronomy and astrology and the stars. We are all made from Stardust and we all come stars. ”
But the superstar pop was motivated by more than just curiosity. On Monday, she will join the fiancée of Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King journalist and three other womenOn a fully feminine blue space flight.Perry spoke with the Associated Press in his rehearsal space in southern California on Wednesday, a few days before she prepares for training in Texas.
“I speak to myself every day and I go:” You are courageous, you are daring, you do this for the next generation to inspire so many different people, but especially the young girls to do, “I’m going to go to space in the future.” No limitation ”, she said.
Perry said she had “psychologically” prepared the space theft by reading the work of the late Sagan and other scientists.
“I am really enthusiastic about the idea of engineering of all this.
An entirely female space flight seems to be an appropriate company for Perry, 40, whose collection of success includes songs on extraterrestrials (“and”) and fireworks that shoot in the sky (“Firework”), as well as feminist hymns as its success in 2013, “Roar”, and “Woman’s World”, out of its biggest hymns, “roar” and “roar” “Woman’s World”, off the most property of 2013, “Roar”, and “Woman’s World”, off its mostRecent album.
Perry said that she was doing something new or intimidation every time, she looks inward and confidence.
“Using this divine female with which I was born and definitely unlocked when I had my daughter even more. He was sure. His daughter, Daisy, 4, joined Perry before his rehearsal.
Bezos rocket companyBlueannounced the crew in February. Sanchez, helicopter pilot and former television journalist, chose women who will join her on a 10 -minute space flight from western Texas aboard a new Shepard rocket. Perry, Sanchez and King will be joined by Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist who now runs an engineering firm, researcher Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
“I feel so grateful and anchored and honored to be invited and included with this incredible group of women,” said Perry. Whenever she is nervous about the trip, she remembers how important it is.
Blue Origin has stolen tourists on short hops to space since 2021, after Bezos went on board with his brother for the inaugural journey; The next trip will be the 11th human space flight of the company. Some passengers have received free rides, while others paid a heavy sum to feel a weightlessness. The company refused to comment who is the invoice on Monday flight.
The news of the next trip has not been without criticism, more recently of the actorOlivia Munn,who deplored the cost and advertising of the mission. But Perry believes a team of women entirely – the first sinceValentina Tereshkova Solo Spatial VerseIn 1963 – has historical ramifications. So far, 14% of people who have gone to space were women.
“This is an important moment for the future of travel in commercial space and for humanity in general and for women all around,” she said. “I just feel:” Put us in a coach “.”
This story was initially presented on Fortune.com
