Katy Perry revealed she’s ‘dreamt of going to space for 15 years’ ahead of the all-female Blue Origin rocket mission on Monday morning.
The singer, 40, also gave a behind-the-scenes look inside the capsule as she shared her excitement over the imminent launch.
Dressed in her blue space suit she spoke to the camera and gave a tour of the ‘capsule’ where they have been doing their training.
The star will be part of a history-making 11-minute flight, alongside Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez, journalist Gayle King and three other women, which is set to be the first all-female trip to space since 1963.
Katy penned in the caption of her post: ‘I’ve dreamt of going to space for 15 years and tomorrow that dream becomes a reality!
‘The Taking Up Space Crew launches tomorrow morning at 7am CT and I am SO honored to be alongside 5 other incredible and inspiring women as we become the first ever all female flight space crew!’
Katy Perry revealed she’s ‘dreamt of going to space for 15 years’ ahead of the all-female Blue Origin rocket mission on Monday morning
The singer, 40, also gave a behind-the-scenes look inside the capsule as she shared her excitement over the imminent launch
The star will be part of a history-making 11-minute flight, alongside Jeff Bezos ‘ fiancée Lauren Sanchez, journalist Gayle King and three other women, which is set to be the first all-female trip to space since 1963
In the video she gave a tour and said: ‘Okay I’m going to show you the capsule that we have been training in for the last few days. Here I am! Seat number 2!’
She added: ‘I think I’m gonna sing in space – I’ve got to sing in space! These seats are for all my astronaut girlie friends. We are the ‘taking up space crew’. That phrase now has a double entendre.
‘I’m not going to say I can’t believe I’m here because I can and I think if you believe in your dreams that’s actually how you make them come true!’
Katy looked ready for action on Sunday as she posed alongside Lauren in bodycon space outfits ahead of their Blue Origin mission as the singer declared: ‘We’re putting the ‘ass’ in astronaut!’
The launch is part of Blue Origin’s New Shepherd program – and will take place in west Texas on April 14, with the new space suits designed by Lauren herself.
Katy shared snaps from the launch on Sunday to her Instagram and penned: ‘Happy International Day of Human Space Flight. Forever in awe of the Universe and it’s alignment.’
She looked confident in the blue jumpsuit which was emblazoned with ‘Perry’ and said ‘Blue Origin’ down the arm.
This week Lauren told The New York Times of designing the blue suits: ‘Let’s reimagine the flight suit. Usually, you know, these suits are made for a man. Then they get tailored to fit a woman.’
Dressed in her blue space suit she spoke to the camera and gave a tour of the ‘capsule’ where they have been doing their training
Katy penned in the caption of her post: ‘I’ve dreamt of going to space for 15 years and tomorrow that dream becomes a reality!’
In the video she gave a tour and said: ‘Okay I’m going to show you the capsule that we have been training in for the last few days. Here I am! Seat number 2!’
She added: ‘I think I’m gonna sing in space – I’ve got to sing in space! These seats are for all my astronaut girlie friends’
Katy looked ready for action on Sunday as she posed alongside Lauren in their blue space outfits ahead of the mission on Monday
She added: ‘I think the suits are elegant but they also bring a little spice to space.’
Five months ago Lauren got in touch with Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, the co-founders of the brand Monse, who are also creative directors of Oscar de la Renta and made her 2024 Met Gala outfit.
They agreed to help her with the space suit designs.
Fernando said during the interview: ‘We even had a meeting on what underwear Lauren is going to wear…’ to which she responded: ‘Skims!’
As the end of the interview Lauren then quoted something she said Katy had told her: ‘We’re putting the ‘ass’ in astronaut!’
Last week Katy revealed how she is ‘psychologically’ preparing for her all-female Blue Origin space mission.
The hitmaker has been motivating herself by telling herself that she will inspire others, reading the work of astrophysicists, and channeling her ‘feminine divine’ ahead of her space tourism stunt.
She spoke with the Associated Press at her Ontario, California rehearsal space on Wednesday, days before she was set to leave for training in Texas.
She said: ‘I am talking to myself every day and going, ‘You’re brave, you’re bold, you are doing this for the next generation to inspire so many different people but especially young girls to go, ‘I’ll go to space in the future.’ No limitations.”
The Roar hitmaker also said she has been ‘psychologically’ preparing for the spaceflight by reading work from the late Sagan and other scientists.
Katy explained: ‘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 went on to say that whenever she is on the verge of something new or feels daunting, she looks within herself to unlock the strength that she needs.
‘Using that feminine divine that I was born with and definitely unlocked when I had my daughter even more. It leveled up for sure. Being a mother just makes you level up with that type of power.’
Katy shares four-year-old daughter Daisy with actor fiancé Orlando Bloom.
She famously sung about falling in love with an extraterrestrial in 2010 hit track E.T. and now she is turning to the work of one of the most famous astrophysicists who studied them in the aforementioned Sagan.
Regarding her preparations for the mission, she told AP: ‘I was listening to Cosmos by Carl Sagan and reading a book on string theory, I’ve always been interested in astrophysics and interested in astronomy and astrology and the stars.
‘We are all made of stardust and we all come from the stars.’
Mark Bezos, Jeff Bezos, Oliver Daemen and Wally Funk are seen in the original uniforms
Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced the crew in February and his fiancée Sánchez, a helicopter pilot and former TV journalist, picked the women who will join her to take part in an 11-minute flight to space on a rocket.
The stars will also join former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
Of the crew the pop star said: ‘I am feeling so grateful and grounded and honored to be invited and included with this incredible group of women.’
The mission has had its detractors including Hollywood actress Olivia Munn who blasted it during an appearance on Today With Jenna And Friends earlier this month.
Both Munn and Jenna began the conversation as they pointed out the group’s recent cover for Elle and Olivia started to offer her thoughts before stopping herself.
She then questioned, ‘What are they doing? Like why? You know what I mean?’ – which got a few chuckles from the live audience.
‘I know that this is probably not the cool thing to say, but there are so many other things that are so important in the world right now.’
The launch is part of Blue Origin’s New Shepherd program – and will take place in west Texas on April 14, with the new space suits designed by Lauren herself
Gayle King looked ready for action in the outfit
Munn then added, ‘What are you going to do up in space? What are you doing up there?’
Hager cut in to express the six ladies will be on the flight for a total of 11 minutes – which prompted Olivia to compare the launch to a ride at Disneyland.
Blue Origin Flight NS-31 is the first launch with an all-female crew since Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo space flight in 1963.
The rocket that the six women will use can fly itself – and will float in space for around four minutes before returning back to Earth.
The launch is part of Blue Origin’s New Shepherd program – and will take place in West Texas on April 14 at 8:30 a.m. CDT / 13:30 UTC.
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