Six women, including the famous pop singer Katy Perry, have returned to Earth after visiting space. They went to space as tourists through the New Sephard rocket made by billionaire Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin.
Along with Perry, Bezes' wife Lauren Sanchez, television host Gayle King, former NASA employee Aisha Bowie, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and filmmaker Kyrian Flynn were among those on the space tour.
Although the ticket price of the 11-minute-long flight is not clearly disclosed, various international media have mentioned that it is 150,000 dollars, which is about 20 million Nepalese rupees according to the current exchange rate. In it, the passengers circled half of the earth . This team of women reached 100 kilometers above the Earth's surface, the last layer of the atmosphere called the 'Karman Line' and a little above the starting point of outer space.
During that time, they have responded that they feel weightless for a while. They said that they floated in the air like in the air and were able to observe the darkness of space along with half of the earth. Singer Perry, who carried a daisy flower in space travel, also sang the song "What a Wonderful World". Scientist Bowie went on to do three researches related to plant science and the human body.
They took off from the desert of western Texas at 9 in the morning and landed there again at 10:55. This was the 11th flight by Blue Origin to send a tourist into space . After returning to earth, Perry kissed the ground and blew the daisy flower. BBC has revealed that Daisy is the name of his daughter.
"This kind of space travel involving only female passengers took place 60 years ago," BBC news said, "at that time, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereskovsky traveled alone". She is also the first woman to travel solo in space.'
Recently, the concept of space tourism is being developed. According to the Indian Express, the market for space tourism in 2023 was $848.28 billion. By 2032, it is estimated to increase to $27,861.99 billion. From 2001 to 2022, about 63 people have been counted as space tourists. Space X, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and other companies have been providing such new facilities for adventure tourism.
