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“I was like, ‘What am I going to wear?'” Katy Perry told Elle ahead of her Blue Origin flight with King, Lauren Sánchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, and Kerianne Flynn. “But seriously, I have wanted to go to space for almost 20 years. I was investigating all of the possible commercial options. Even when Blue Origin was first talking about commercial travel to space, I was like, ‘Sign me up! I’m first in line.’”

MTV News did report in 2010 that Perry had purchased a $200,000 ticket to board a Virgin Galactic suborbital flight, when the company finally got one off the ground.

“I’m so into extraterrestrial stuff,” the “E.T.” singer told the outlet around that time. “It’s very difficult for me to look up into the sky in the middle of the night and not think that our planet is one of…a bajillion. It’s really, really small. And Russell and I are interested in anything extraterrestrial. I mean, we’re going to space.” (She and then-husband Russell Brand split up in 2011.)

As her 2025 Blue Origin trip approached, the 40-year-old told Elle, “I don’t have any time to be nervous; I ain’t got time to be worried. I’m going to feel something when they go, ‘10, 9, 8, 7,…’ but until then we’ve got stuff to do. We’ve got business to handle.”

But best of all, Perry quipped, “Space is going to finally be glam. Let me tell you something. If I could take glam up with me, I would do that. We are going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut.”