When mankind first began sending living beings into space, we didn’t start with people. We started with monkeys. A few dogs. Some cats, tortoises, rats, and even a few fish and frogs, among others. We even sent some fruit flies. Then people.
It seems we’ve resorted back to the monkeys.
One step shy of exiting the shuttle and throwing her own feces, singer Katy Perry, one six women to make up the first all-female crew to “journey to space” (they popped out of the atmosphere at about 62 miles above Earth, circled a bit, then plopped back down on the ground about 10 minutes later, so it wasn’t exactly a mission to colonize the moon, but hey), waxed poetic about her experience being catapulted through the clouds to float around in zero-gravity for a few minutes, saying she felt deeply connected to the "strong divine feminine."
When asked how she felt on the flight, Perry responded, “It is the highest high. It is surrender to the unknown. Trust. And this whole journey is not just about going to space - it’s the training, it’s the team, it’s the whole thing," saying going to space was "up there" with meditation.
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“What you’re doing is you’re like, really finding the love for yourself, because you’re got to trust in yourself on this journey. And then you’re feeling the love when you come down, and you’re feeling that strength, so I’m feeling that for sure. I’m feeling really connected to that strong, divine feminine right now,” she went on, staring off into the horizon and raising questions as to whether the space shuttle was sufficiently pressurized to avoid oxygen loss and brain damage for those onboard.
BREAKING: Katy Perry said she felt deeply connected to the "strong divine feminine" after her spaceflight alongside an all-female crew. pic.twitter.com/wXJuIYxEJA
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Onboard cameras and communications caught the moment the “divine feminine” crew, which included Gayle King, Jeff Bezos’ wife Lauren Sanchez, squealed like a pig farm on slaughtering day at touchdown. Perry then made a show of kissing the dirt after stepping out of the shuttle as though she'd wondered for a moment if the rest of the world had voted to leave her up there with the space junk.
Which, of course, I'd never suggest.
low key bet they all felt like a plastic bag drifting through the wind in that thing#BlueOriginpic.twitter.com/PVIfKGwzei
— T (@teewatterss) April 14, 2025
While Blue Origin and the...er..."crew" on Monday's trip would have you believe their tourist rocket blasted through the atmosphere and shattered some previously unbreakable glass ceiling along the way, the publicity stunt wasn't actually first space flight to feature an all-female roster. In 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, orbiting the Earth on a nearly three-day solo flight around the globe. In 1983, Sally Ride became not only the first American woman in space, but also the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, being only 32 years old when she embarked on the six-day mission.
Blue Origin’s Monday flight, comprised of six female passengers who had no control or responsibility over the spacecraft whatsoever, spanned the length of less than two episodes of Bluey, of roughly one-third the average length of a Super Bowl halftime show.
But you go girls, or whatever.