Ontario, California – After a long rehearsal day for your next world tour, Katy Perry He decided to examine 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 fiancee of Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez, the journalist Gayle King and three other women in 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 myself 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 especially the young girls to go,” I will go to space in the future. “Without limitations,” he said.
Perry said he has prepared “psychologically” for the space flight reading the work of the deceased Sagan and other scientists.
“I am really excited about the engineering of everything. I am excited to learn more about Stem and only about mathematics about what is needed to achieve this kind of thing,” he said.
A totally feminine space turnaround seems adequate effort for Perry, 40, whose hits collection 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”, most of its most Recent album.
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 I definitely unlocked when I had my daughter even more. Surely was leveling. Being mother only makes you level with that kind of power,” he said. His daughter, Daisy, 4, joined Perry before his essay.
Bezos’ 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 on board with his brother for the inaugural trip; The next trip will be the 11th human flight flights of the company. Some passengers have received free trips, while others have paid a considerable sum to experiment. 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 from the actor Olivia Munn, who regretted the cost and advertising of the mission. But Perry believes in a women’s crew, the first since then Valentina Tereshkova’s only spacepshlight In 1963, he has historical ramifications.
“It is an important moment for the future of commercial spaces and for humanity in general and for women everywhere,” he said, citing the fact that only about 11% of people who have gone to space have been women. “I am excited that this number is even more the same after this flight. And I feel that ‘put us in the coach.”
