Katy Perry says shes going to put the ass in astronaut in nutty interview ahead of all-female Blue Origin space flight

Katy Perry is vowing to “put the ‘ass’ in astronaut” when she goes into space as part of Blue Origin’s all-female crewed mission.The pop star, 40, will be joining CBS News’ Gayle King, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn for the 31st mission launch the Amazon founder’s New Shepard rocket.The women, who are set to launch later this month gave a wild interview to Elle about their plans for the 11-minute mission.

First, all six women are fully committed to going to space in full makeup.“Space is going to finally be glam,” Perry proclaimed told Elle.“If I could take glam up with me, I would do that.“We are going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut,” she added.

Bowe, an aerospace engineer who always dreamed about going to space, joined in on the fun and revealed that she has been running tests to make sure her look survives the blast off.“I also wanted to test out my hair and make sure that it was okay.So I skydived in Dubai with similar hair to make sure I would be good — took it for a dry run,” she said.While King, who has made it clear she’s the most nervous for the flight, worried if their lash extensions would actually stay on during the trip, Sanchez, 55, offered an easy fix.“Mine are glued on.

They’re good,” she said in the interview.Nguyen, who studied astrophysics at Harvard before becoming a civil rights activists following a sexual assault, backed the idea of the women looking their best for the flight as a show of female empowerment.

“I think it’s so important for people to see us like that,” she said.“This dichotomy of engineer and scientist, and then beauty and fashion.

We contain multitudes.Women are multitudes.”“I’m going to be wearing lipstick,” Nguyen added.

Along with the makeup, the women were also invited to bring some items with them on the trip, with Bowe revealing that she will ...