Some rich celebs like to spend their cash on extremely ridiculous issues, and lately, that has included tickets to outer house. And with NASA going through excessive potential finances cuts (Ars Technica reported that the Trump administration’s proposed finances would reduce the company’s total finances by almost 20 %, together with lowering its science funding by nearly half), it feels poignantly out-of-touch to be shelling out a reported $600,000 for a seat on a Virgin Galatic flight or $1 million for a seat with Blue Origin (per Area Insider).
Listed below are 11 well-known individuals who’ve flown in house:
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In April 2025, Katy Perry joined the primary all-female house flight, spending roughly 4 minutes in house with Blue Origin. Per Sky Information, she mentioned, “I really feel tremendous linked to like. So linked to like. I feel this expertise has proven me you by no means know the way a lot love is inside you. Like, how a lot love it’s a must to give and the way beloved you’re till the day you launch…I feel that it isn’t about me. It is not about singing my songs. It is a couple of collective vitality in there. It is about us. It is about making house for future ladies and taking over house and belonging. And it is about this glorious world that we see proper on the market and appreciating it. That is all for the advantage of earth…This expertise is second to being a mother.”
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Gayle King was aboard the identical house flight as Katy Perry. Per CBS Information, after touchdown, she mentioned, “I’m so happy with me proper now. This was not a trip. What occurred to us — this was a bona fide freakin’ flight.” She additionally mentioned, “You look down on the planet and also you assume that is the place we got here from? To me, it is such a reminder about how we have to do higher, be higher.”
Responding to criticism of the flight, she instructed Folks, “Anyone that is criticizing it would not actually perceive what is going on right here. We are able to all communicate to the response we’re getting from younger ladies, from younger ladies about what this represents.”
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Per E! Information, journalist Lauren Sánchez, who led the all-female flight crew, instructed Blue Origin, “All of the love that was in that capsule, and all the guts and the sentiments, and seeing Jeff [Bezos, her fiancé] earlier than I left, I simply…I needed to come again. I imply, we’re getting married! If I did not come again, that might be a bummer for me.”
She additionally instructed Folks, “I get actually fired up [by criticis]. I might like to have them come to Blue Origin and see the 1000’s of staff that do not simply work right here, however they put their coronary heart and soul into this automobile. They love their work, and so they love the mission, and it is a huge deal for them. So once we hear feedback like that, I simply say, ‘Belief me. Include me. I am going to present you what that is about, and it is, it is actually eye-opening.'”
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Movie producer Kerianne Flynn, who’s identified for engaged on The Automated Hate, This Adjustments Every little thing, and Lilly, was additionally a part of the Blue Origin all-female crew. Per 11Alive, she mentioned, “I’ve nearly no phrases. It was probably the most unbelievable expertise of my life to be up there and see the…such huge darkness in house and look down on our planet. The moon was so lovely…I felt like that was a particular present only for me.”
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In 2021, William Shatner flew to house with Blue Origin. In his guide Boldly Go: Reflections on a Lifetime of Awe and Surprise, he wrote, “I had thought that going into house could be the last word catharsis of that connection I had been searching for between all residing issues — that being up there could be the following lovely step to understanding the concord of the universe. Within the movie Contact, when Jodie Foster’s character goes to house and appears out into the heavens, she lets out an astonished whisper, ‘They need to’ve despatched a poet.’ I had a special expertise, as a result of I found that the wonder is not on the market, it is down right here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet much more profound. It was among the many strongest emotions of grief I’ve ever encountered.”
He continued, “The distinction between the vicious coldness of house and the nice and cozy nurturing of Eearth beneath crammed me with overwhelming unhappiness. Day by day, we’re confronted with the data of additional destruction of Earth at our arms: the extinction of animal species, of wildlife… issues that took 5 billion years to evolve, and abruptly we are going to by no means see them once more due to the interference of mankind. It crammed me with dread. My journey to house was purported to be a celebration; as an alternative, it felt like a funeral.”
“I discovered later that I used to be not alone on this feeling. It’s referred to as the ‘Overview Impact’ and isn’t unusual amongst astronauts, together with Yuri Gagarin, Michael Collins, Sally Experience, and lots of others. Primarily, when somebody travels to house and views earth from orbit, a way of the planet’s fragility takes maintain in an ineffable, instinctive method. Writer Frank White first coined the time period in 1987: ‘There aren’t any borders or boundaries on our planet besides those who we create in our minds or via human behaviors. All of the concepts and ideas that divide us once we are on the floor start to fade from orbit and the moon. The result’s a shift in worldview, and in identification,'” he wrote.
“It might change the way in which we take a look at the planet but additionally different issues like nations, ethnicities, religions; it could possibly immediate an immediate reevaluation of our shared concord and a shift in focus to all of the fantastic issues we’ve in widespread as an alternative of what makes us totally different. It strengthened tenfold my very own view on the ability of our lovely, mysterious collective human entanglement, and finally, it returned a sense of hope to my coronary heart. On this insignificance we share, we’ve one present that different species maybe don’t: we’re conscious — not solely of our insignificance however the grandeur round us that makes us insignificant. That enables us maybe an opportunity to rededicate ourselves to our planet, to one another, to life and love throughout us. If we seize that likelihood,” he concluded.
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Michael Strahan additionally took an area flight with Blue Origin in 2021. He instructed ABC Information, “It is such — nearly like an out-of-body expertise. It is arduous to even imagine it occurred. It is a loopy feeling, like the sensation of weightlessness, the sensation when the booster goes off, the rocket goes off, and it detaches and you do not know what’s up from down. And your physique simply goes like this, and you are taking off a seatbelt, however naturally, it feels pure to maneuver.”
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In 2021, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson took his first journey to house. He instructed At present, “I’ve all the time dreamt about what it could be wish to be in house trying again at this unbelievable earth. It is unimaginable to explain simply how magnificent it’s.”
He additionally shrugged off criticism that house tourism is at odds with batling local weather change, telling the BBC, “Communication between folks is being reworked due to house journey and satellites up there. Monitoring issues just like the depredation of rainforests and unlawful fishing…[there are] all these sorts of advantages that come from house journey.”
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Later that very same month, fellow billioniare and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos joined the corporate’s inaugural launch into house. In line with AP Information, he referred to as it the “finest day ever” and later mentioned, “My expectations have been excessive, and so they have been dramatically exceeded.”
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Coby Cotton, a member of the YouTube comedy group Dude Excellent, did a Blue Origin house flight in 2022. In a Dude Excellent video about his expertise (which was sponsored by MoonDAO), he mentioned, “That was completely insane…After which unexpectedly, it truly is — it is simply black. Simply this good circle, tremendous vibrant layer of blue all the way in which across the earth. The most important of all time shout out, MoonDAO. Actually the expertise of a lifetime.”
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In 2025, Emily Calandrelli — aka The Area Gal, who’s a TV presenter, science communicator, engineer, and author with over 1,000,000 TikTok followers — took a Blue Origin flight, making her the one hundredth lady in house. In a YouTube video documenting her expertise, she mentioned, “Flying to house was one thing I had dreamed about and labored towards for 20 years, and it was all the things I hoped it could be and a lot extra.”
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And British Olympian John Goodwin, who competed as a canoeist on the 1972 Munich Video games, took a Virgin Galactic house flight in 2023. He instructed Olympics.com, “I don’t got down to do these items. It simply appears to be in my nature. To do one thing that only a few different folks have carried out… to have the chance was the attraction. I had a want to go to house as a result of it appealed to my adventurous nature.”
He purchased his ticket for the corporate’s first industrial spaceflight all the way in which again in 2004. He paid $250,000 on the time.
And now, listed here are 10 celebs who reportedly purchased tickets or acquired invited to fly to house, however have but to go:
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In a 2013 tweet, Richard Branson confirmed that Justin Bieber and his supervisor on the time, Scooter Braun, had bought Virgin Galatic tickets. He mentioned, “Nice to listen to @justinbieber & @scooterbraun are newest @virgingalactic future astronauts. Congrats, see you up there!” In line with the BBC, on the time, ticket value $250,000 a pop.
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In 2013, the Hamilton Spectator reported that Rihanna allegedly spent $750,000 on three seats aboard a Virgin Galatic flight for herself, her little brother Rorrey, and a bodyguard.
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Pete Davidson was scheduled to fly with Blue Origin in 2022, however the firm introduced in a tweet that he was “now not capable of be part of the NS-20 crew on this mission.” In line with the Guardian, he was scheduled to go as a visitor of Jeff Bezos, not a paying ticketholder.
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Per Area Week, in 2002, Lance Bass skilled to be an astronaut in Star Metropolis, Russia. Each the Russian Area Program and NASA licensed him, and he was scheduled to fly aboard a Soyuz capsule. Nevertheless, NBC Information reported that, in direction of the top of the 12 months, the Russian Aviation and Area Company introduced that he’d been faraway from the flight. It was as a result of his crew failed to seek out sponsors to contribute in direction of the roughly $20 million value of his endeavor.
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Per Selection, on the 2014 amfAR public sale, which helps AIDS analysis, Leonardo DiCaprio auctioned off a seat on an area flight with him. It bought for €700,000, which was near $1 million on the time. In line with Area.com, the Virgin Galactic flight was initially scheduled for 2015. The ticket was bought by Russian millionaire Vasily Klyukin, who in 2014 instructed ABC Information, “My plans of flying into house have not modified and I am nonetheless going to do it with Virgin…Now I am simply ready. I nonetheless dream to go to house.”
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Per HuffPost, in 2011, Newscore reported that James Cameron was the primary particular person to splash out $150 million on an area flight ticket from the house tourism firm Area Adventures.
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Per ABC Information, Richard Branson reportedly gifted Kate Winslet a Virgin Galactic ticket when she married his nephew, Edward Abel Smith (née Ned RocknRoll) in 2012.
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Per NBC Information, in 2012, Ashton Kutcher grew to become the five hundredth particular person to buy a Virgin Galactic ticket. Nevertheless, in 2021, he instructed Cheddar, “Once I acquired married and had children, my spouse inspired that it was not a wise household choice to be heading into house when we’ve younger youngsters.”
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In 2008, Paris Hilton reportedly purchased a Virgin Galactic ticket. She instructed the Guardian, “I am very scared to do it. What if I do not come again? With the entire light-years factor, what if I come again 10,000 years later, and everybody I do know is useless? I will be like, ‘Nice. Now I’ve to start out throughout.'”
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And eventually, Paris’s husband, Carter Reum, additionally purchased a Virgin Galactic ticket. In a 2021 interview with Richard Branson on her YouTube channel, Paris mentioned it was “thrilling.”
What do you concentrate on celebrities going into house? Would you go take a industrial spaceflight in the event you had the chance (or the funds)? Share your ideas within the feedback!
