There's Something Incredibly Sketchy About How They Opened the Hatch on Katy Perry's Rocket

By pretty much any account, Blue Origin's publicity stunt of sending an all-female crew into space was a major flop. The Jeff Bezos-owned New Shepard capsule spent mere minutes in kinda-sorta-maybe space, giving its extremely wealthy passengers a momentary glimpse of weightlessness — though more in the way a rollercoaster ride causes you to shift out of your seat than in the microgravity of actual orbit (unlike a theme park ride, though, a ticket for the jaunt set passengers like pop star Katy Perry back hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece.) Adding to the drama, a peculiar moment captured during the live stream had audiences scratching their heads. As spotted by eagle-eyed netizens, and later confirmed by Snopes, the door to the capsule briefly opened inwards and shut again after it softly landed in the West Texas desert. A female employee can be seen hurrying over to the door in an apparent attempt to tell the occupants to shut it again, around the 1:45:30 mark in the official ... Read full article.