After a long day of repetition for her future world tour,Katy perryHe decided to read some books to help him be released in front of the bed.
“I was listening to ‘Cosmos’ by Carl Sagan and reading a book on the theory of the verse,” she recalled. “I have always been interested in astrophysics and interested in astronomy and astrology and stars. We are all made by Stardust and we all come from the stars.”
But the pop superstar was motivated by more than just curiosity. On Monday, she will join Jeff Bezos’ fiancé Lauren Sanchezon a spatial flight of blue-female origin.Perry spoke with the Associated Press in her southern California test space on Wednesday, a few days before she left for training in Texas.
“I am talking to myself every day and going to go,” You are brave, you are brave, you are doing this for the next generation to inspire so many different people, but especially young girls to go, “I will go into space in the future.” No restrictions, ‘she said.
Perry said she has been “psychologically” preparing for flying in space reading work from the late Sagan and other scientists.
“I am really excited about the engineering of all. I am excited to learn more about the stem and only mathematics about what it takes to accomplish this kind of thing,” she said.
A comprehensive spatial flight seems a suitable effort for 40-year-old Perry, whose hits collection includes extraterrestrial songs (“et”) and fireworks shooting around the sky (“fireworks”), as well as feminist hymns such as its 2013 hit, “Roar” and “The Woman World”, from itLast album.
Perry said that whenever she is doing something new or scary, she looks inner for strength and confidence.
“Using the female divine that I was born with her and I definitely got up to my daughter even more. This was certainly flattened. Being a mother simply makes you level with that kind of power,” she said. Her daughter, Daisy, 4, joined Perry before her test.
Rocket Bezos’ companyBlueannounced the crew in February. Sanchez, a helicopter pilot and former TV journalist, chose women who will join her on a 10-minute spatial flight from West Texas on a new Shepard missile. Perry, Sanchez and King will join Aisha Bowe, a former NASA missile scientist who now heads an engineering firm, research scientist Amanda Nguyen and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.
“I feel very grateful and founded and honored to be invited and involved with this extraordinary group of women,” Perry said. Whenever she gets nervous about the journey, she reminds herself how important she is.
Blue Origin has flown tourists in short hops in space since 2021, after Bezos climbed on board with his brother for inaugural journey; The next trip will be the 11th human flight of the company. Some passengers have taken free trips, while others have paid a heavy amount to experience without weight. The company refused to comment on who is making the bill for Monday’s flight.
The news of the next trip has not been without criticism, most recently by the actorOlivia Munn,which surprised the cost and publicity of the mission. But Perry believes a crew all women-first since that timeValentina Treshkova Solo Space -flightIn 1963 – there are historical branches. Only 14% of people who have gone into space so far have been women.
“Next to an important moment for the future of traveling in trade space and for humanity in general and for women around,” she said. “I just feel like, ‘put us in coach.” “
This story was originally presented to Fortune.com