Conspiracy

Weird conspiracy theories surround Blue Origin's first all-female flight

By T.K. Randall
April 19, 2025

Image: Katy Perry at the UNICEF Snowflake Ball (2012)
Credit: Joella Marano / CC BY-SA 2.0 (adapted) There was much to celebrate back on April 14th when a crew consisting of six women - including singer Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos's fiancee Lauren Sanchez and former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe - soared into the heavens on the first all-female space mission in over 60 years.

After the crew had returned to Earth, however, the flight quickly became the focus of a number of wild conspiracy theories, with some people even claiming that the entire mission had been faked.

Alleged abnormalities included everything from the door opening mechanism on the capsule to the way Katy Perry's hair looked in zero-gravity compared to that of astronaut Suni Williams.

Some even claimed to have seen a mannequin sitting in the capsule.

If we look a little closer, however, most - if not all - of these alleged anomalies have conventional explanations.The mannequin image, for example, was taken from an earlier test flight in which dummies were used in place of human passengers, not from this week's manned flight.

The appearance of Katy Perry's hair can be explained by the fact that she and her fellow crew members would have had their hair professionally styled before lift-off, whereas Suni Williams had spent months in space when she was photographed with her hair sticking up.

In other words, there is really no truth to any of these conspiracy theories at all.

The controversy in some ways echoes that of the original Apollo 11 moon landing which remains mired in conspiracy theories to this day.

There are even still those who believe that the Earth is flat despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

For now, at least, it seems that conspiracy theories such as these are very much here to stay.

Source: Mail Online

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