April 18, 2025, 1:53pm

By now you’ve for certain seen the footage of the newest Blue Origin flight, this one passengered by Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, amongst others. The flight technically crossed the Kármán Line into area, on a rocket courtesy of Jeff Amazon. And regardless of having its personal mission patch, the high-flying journey is getting fairly universally panned as an out-of-touch stunt. What the passengers have been saying about their journey after the very fact hasn’t been significantly inspiring both.

It obtained me questioning who could be value listening to about area journey from. In case you may take a traditional writer alongside on an area journey, who would it not be? Would they need to go? And would what they wrote about their journey be fascinating?

I put collectively a bit four-quadrant chart on who would go, and in the event that they’d be value studying. If you wish to play alongside at house, right here’s a clean grid you may fill out!

(Click on for a much bigger, zoomable picture!)