Overview

• During a BBC Radio 2 interview on August 7, Mariah Carey learned for the first time that Katy Perry joined Blue Origin’s all-female NS-31 mission in April.
• Carey repeatedly asked “Did she go to space?” and “Where’d she go?” before deadpanning “I think I’ve done enough” when pressed about her own interest.
• The interview clip spread rapidly online, inspiring memes and social media praise for Carey’s genuine obliviousness to a major news story.
• Perry’s NS-31 flight carried six women on an 11-minute suborbital journey from West Texas, during which she sang “What A Wonderful World” and kissed the ground on return.
• The moment highlights how quickly celebrity spaceflights slip from public memory and reignites debate over the environmental and social optics of private tourism to the edge of space.