Blue Origin launched Katy Perry and Lauren Sánchez into space with an all-female crew—what does that really prove?

Monday’s celebrity-studded mission served as a giant ad for Jeff Bezos’s rocket company, but critics say space tourism isn’t viable for most of us.

Pop star Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez, a former journalist who is Jeff Bezos’s fiancé, were among six women who traveled aboard Blue Origin’s all-female, celebrity-studded, suborbital space mission on Monday morning.