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Fighting the Fake News with Facts:
That Blue Origin flight with Katy Perry and other women did not really go to space like the media is portraying. They didn’t actually experience micro gravity either.
Yes, technically the rocket delivered passengers beyond the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space at 62 miles BUT:
➡️ They really just hit that point at apogee. There was no orbital insertion. Not even close.
➡️ The brief state of weightlessness during the ascent and descent was not due to escaping Earth's gravity, but because of a combination of freefall and the absence of a supporting force (similar to the sensation of being weightless at the peak of a roller coaster). Essentially they were falling towards earth and the absence of the rocket's upward thrust simulated a feeling of weightlessness.
Basically, it’s a capsule launched really high and then it immediately falls back down to earth.
All the floating around, the drama, and Katy Perry’s girl power bullshit…it’s fake. She’s not a damn astronaut, she’s a Hollywood elite who thinks she’s special.
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