“House could be the ultimate frontier, nevertheless it’s made in a Hollywood basement,” the Pink Scorching Chili Peppers as soon as sang, and right now—Monday, April 14—house bought a serious dose of Hollywood as pop star Katy Perry and TV character Gayle King took flight by way of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin space-tourism firm, alongside Bezos’s fiancée, Lauren Sánchez; former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe; bioastronautics analysis scientist and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen; and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn. This morning these six ladies took off on what I assume was the priciest flight of their lives to the Kármán line—or the boundary the place Earth’s environment meets outer house—and I, for one, was able to reside vicariously.
Whether or not you’re raring to divine feminist which means from the flight’s all-female crew or consider house tourism represents all that’s incorrect with our present society, it may’t be argued that Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket launch was a serious cultural spectacle—and, unsurprisingly, I had an entire lot of ideas about it. Discover all of them under.
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