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Was the All-Female Blue Origin Mission ‘Hopecore’?
Katy Perry and Gayle King hoped spending 11 minutes in space inspired people to be better, somehow.
To associate these two things puts into perspective how both nothing and everything the Blue Origin trip was: a six-person self-empowerment lecture made literal and astronomical. While King, Sánchez, and Perry were granted the opportunity as ambassadors of the human race, their non-celeb flightmates Amanda Nguyễn, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn were there, maybe, to get some work done. Nguyễn, an actual astronaut, mentioned that she planned to execute an experiment with menstrual blood and fluid absorption — noting that women were initially not allowed to go into space because of the lack of tests done on how it may affect fertility.
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