Katy Perry and five other high-profile women experienced a short spaceflight aboard a Blue Origin rocket, reaching 66.5 miles altitude and crossing the Karman Line. However, the event sparked a myriad of conspiracy theories online, with some alleging the mission was a hoax filmed in a studio. Psychologists noted that this event combined elements of space exploration and celebrity culture, creating fertile ground for conspiratorial thinking. Despite live coverage and media attention, skeptics dismissed the flight as a fake, echoing historical conspiracy theories surrounding space missions.
Wild theories claim that Jeff Bezos' New Shepard mission took place entirely inside a film studio, with the crew 'floating' in tanks of water.
Dr Daniel Jolley, an expert on the psychology of conspiracies, indicated that this mission is a 'perfect storm for conspiratorial thinking' connecting space exploration and celebrity culture.
Sceptics have panned the launch as a 'Hollywood fake', claiming it had 'the worst CGI any of these fake space agencies has produced'.
Many users, drawing parallels with moon landing conspiracy theories, argue that traveling to space is impossible, thus the flight must be fabricated.
Collection
[
|
...
]