I see Katy Perry, Gayle King, and some other folks are heading up on a Blue Origin rocket later this month. Apparently it’s an all female crew and they’ll be going up 65 miles before coming back down to Earth.
The International Space Station rides along around 253 miles about the planet’s surface. Low Earth Orbit goes up to 1240 miles. Satellites in Geostationary Orbit are around 22K miles above the Equator.
Not to minimize the Blue Origin mission, but it’s basically a very large, loud roller coaster ride. I hope it goes well for them.
I don’t know what the purpose of this ride is other than publicity, which seems like a very expensive publicity stunt, but then again, I don’t get the culture of any of this (waving around) very often so maybe some people are moved by this event. I am not. It seems like a waste of resources.
I suppose my driving around looking for tornadoes or flying airplanes is probably a waste of resources as well, so there’s that.
I hope they have a safe journey.
