Although Katy Perry and her fellow crew members did, in theory, enter space, not everyone agrees that they should be called “astronauts,” as Blue Origin maintains.
‘They’re not astronauts….’ one commenter remarked on X, the previous Twitter. I believe that would upset actual astronauts. They’re famous people sitting on their asses.
At 14:30 BST (09:30) local time, Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission took off from Launch Site One, located approximately 30 miles north of Van Horn, Texas.
