“I used to be like, ‘What am I going to put on?'” Katy Perry instructed Elle forward of her Blue Origin flight with King, Lauren Sánchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, and Kerianne Flynn. “However critically, I’ve wished to go to area for nearly 20 years. I used to be investigating the entire potential industrial choices. Even when Blue Origin was first speaking about industrial journey to area, I used to be like, ‘Signal me up! I’m first in line.’”
MTV Information did report in 2010 that Perry had bought a $200,000 ticket to board a Virgin Galactic suborbital flight, when the corporate lastly acquired one off the bottom.
“I am so into extraterrestrial stuff,” the “E.T.” singer instructed the outlet round that point. “It’s extremely tough for me to search for into the sky in the midst of the evening and never suppose that our planet is one in every of…a bajillion. It is actually, actually small. And Russell and I are focused on something extraterrestrial. I imply, we’re going to area.” (She and then-husband Russell Model break up up in 2011.)
As her 2025 Blue Origin journey approached, the 40-year-old instructed Elle, “I don’t have any time to be nervous; I ain’t acquired time to be fearful. I’m going to really feel one thing once they go, ‘10, 9, 8, 7,…’ however till then we’ve acquired stuff to do. We’ve acquired enterprise to deal with.”
However better of all, Perry quipped, “House goes to lastly be glam. Let me inform you one thing. If I might take glam up with me, I might do this. We’re going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut.”