Fact Check: Was Katy Perry's Widely Mocked Blue Origins Trip a Hoax?
There were no shortage of oddities from pop star Katy Perry’s trip into space aboard a Blue Origin craft with an all-female crew. But did the oddities go so far as outright fakery?
For those of you who missed the aerospace pseudo-event of 2025, Perry — a 40-year-old pop singer best known for tracks like “California Gurls” and “Roar” — became an “astronaut” of sorts by taking part in a roughly 10 minute flight above the Kármán line.
That’s the line that demarcates the atmosphere from outer space 62 miles above ground level, although they were only briefly above it and experienced a mere few minutes of weightlessness during the April 14 flight on board the New Shepard rocket.
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