Katy Perry and Gayle King show off Blue Origin space suits ahead of all female flight
Katy Perry and her fellow female crew members have shown off their ‘glam’ spacesuits ahead of their journey into the stars on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin craft.
The Roar singer posed alongside fellow Blue Origin crew members, Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, on Sunday, local time, for an Instagram post in the lead-up to their flight on Tuesday AEST.
Perry, 40, captioned the post: “Happy International Day of Human Space Flight. Forever in awe of the Universe and its alignment”.
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“Usually these suits are made for a man. Then they get tailored to fit a woman,” Sanchez said.
“I think the suits are elegant but they also bring a little spice to space.”
Garcia told the Times “we also wanted something that was a little dangerous, like a motocross outfit. Or a ski suit.
“Flattering and sexy.”
Perry has been spruiking a similar line in the lead-up to the flight, telling Elle magazine: “Space is going to finally be glam. We are going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut.”
Perry said she has been “psychologically” preparing for the spaceflight by reading work from the late Sagan and other scientists.
“I’m really excited about the engineering of it all. I’m excited to learn more about STEM and just the math about what it takes to accomplish this type of thing,” she said.
Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced the crew in February. Sanchez, a helicopter pilot and former TV journalist, picked the women who will join her on a 10-minute spaceflight from West Texas aboard a New Shepard rocket.
Perry, Sanchez and King will be joined by Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist who now heads an engineering firm, research scientist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn.
Perry believes an all-women crew — the first since Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963 — has historic ramifications. Only 14 per cent of people who have gone to space so far have been women.
“It’s an important moment for the future of commercial space travel and for humanity in general and for women all around,” she said. “I just feel like, ‘Put us in coach.’”
