If you haven’t heard enough about Blue Origin’s April 14 space flight, there’s already speculation about who will board Jeff Bezos’ next mission.
That was likely the point of having well-known names on the New Shepard rocket this week. Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, and Katy Perry have all heard the criticism about their controversial flight — they are not astronauts no matter how hard they try to convince us. Still, other celebrity names are reportedly lining up to experience 11 minutes in space.
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Ivanka Trump is considered “one of the more likely candidates” to be on the next ride, according to The U.S. Sun. The media outlet cites her close ties to Bezos and Sánchez, and she’s already received a coveted invite to their wedding in June in Venice, Italy. Besides her friendship with the power couple, Trump has also had an interest in space going back to her childhood.
“I think I can speak for all of us here to say you inspire us all. You actually have my dream job,” she told the International Space Station Expedition 56 crew via a video call from NASA’s Mission Control Center in 2018, per Space.com. “I always wanted to be an astronaut, and I always wanted to go to space. You are fulfilling my dream up there.”
It probably wouldn’t take too much convincing to get her to sign up, and she can certainly afford the ticket (the deposit alone costs $150,000). Bezos would probably also be pleased with the headlines a Trump family member would generate.
That would be music to Bezos’ ears because he admitted at the 2024 The New York Times’ DealBook Summit in December that his space company was “not a very good business yet.” Still, he’s confident is going to be bigger than his other great success, Amazon.
“I think it’s going to be the best business that I’ve ever been involved in, but it’s going to take a while,” Bezos said.
Blue Origin’s next space flight hasn’t been announced yet, but The U.S. Sun seems to think that other A-list names like Leonardo DiCaprio, Rihanna, and Kim Kardashian could potentially be crew mates with Trump in the near future.
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