When Katy Perry and the all-woman crew of Blue Origin’s next astronaut launch lift off on Monday, they’ll launch in style. Literally. Lauren Sánchez, the journalist and author who organized the flight (she’s also fiancee of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos), recruited designer Monse to reimagine Blue Origin’s flight suits. “I think the suits are elegant, but they also bring a little spice to space,” Sánchez told the New York Times. Perry and Sanchez will launch on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket on Monday (April 14) along with “CBS…
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SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket, lands booster on ship at sea
Another batch of Starlink wireless internet satellites is in orbit after a full moon-lit SpaceX launch from Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink 12-17 mission Saturday night (April 12) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The Falcon 9 lifted off from KSC’s historic Launch Complex-39A at 8:53 p.m. EDT (0053 on April 13 GMT), carrying a stack of 21 Starlink satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO). The Falcon 9 rests on the deck of a drone ship at sea shortly after its touchdown on April 12, 2025.…
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