Ontario, California (AP) – After a long rehearsal day for her next world tour, Katy Perry decided to read some books to help her relax before bedtime.
“He was listening to Carl Sagan and reading a book about string theory,” he recalled. “I have always been interested in astrophysics and interested in astronomy and astrology and stars. We are all made of star and we all come from the stars.”
But pop superstar was motivated by more than curiosity. On Monday, he will join the fiance of Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez, the journalist Gayle King and three other women on a space flight of female blue origin.
Perry spoke with Associated Press in his essay space in southern California on Wednesday, days before he went to train in Texas.
“I am talking to Myelf every day and going:” You are brave, you are bold, you are doing this for the next generation to inspire so many different people, but the specified young girls to go, “I will go to space in the future.” Without limitations, “he said.
Perry said it has been “psychological” preparation for the space flight when reading the work of the late Sagan and other scientists.
“I am really excited about the engineering of everything. I am excited to learn more voice and only mathematics about what is needed to achieve this kind of thing,” he said.
A totally feminine space flight seems adequate effort for Perry, 40, whose collection of successes includes songs about aliens (“et”) and fireworks that shoot throughout the sky (“Firework”), as well as feminist hymns such as its success of 2013, “Roar” and “Woman’s World”, from their most recently recently recently.
Perry said that every time he is doing something new or discouraging, he seeks strength and trust.
“Using that female divine with which I was born and definitely unlock when I had my daughter even more. His daughter, Daisy, 4, joined Perry before his essay.
Bezos’s rocket company, Blue Origin, announced the crew in February. Sánchez, a helicopter pilot and former television journalist, chose women who will join her on a 10 -minute space flight from the West Texas aboard a new Shepard rocket. Perry, Sánchez and King will join Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist who now directs an engineering firm, research scientist Amanda Nguyen and the film producer Kerianne Flynn.
“I feel very grateful, punished and honored to be invited and included with this incredible group of women,” said Perry. Every time he gets nervous for the trip, he reminds herself how important it is.
Blue Origin has flown to tourists in short jumps to space since 2021, after Bezos went up to Abboard with his brother for the inaugural trip; The next trip will be the 11th human flight flights of the company. Some passengers have resorted to free trips, while others have paid an average sum to experience the ungravation. The company declined to comment on who is paying the bill for Monday’s flight.
The news of the next trip has not been without criticism, more recently by actor Olivia Munn, who regretted the cost and advertising of the mission. But Perry believes that a women’s crew, the first from the solo space flight of Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 has historical ramifications. Only 14% of the people who have gone to space so far have women in their legs.
“It is an important moment for the future of commercial spaces and for humanity in general and for women everywhere,” he said. “I simply feel that” he put us in the coach. “
