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Mariah Carey is baffled by Katy Perry’s space flight (Picture: BBC Radio 2; Blue Origin)

Mariah Carey just learned that Katy Perry went to space – and it was frankly iconic.

‘Would you fancy going to space?’ Scott Mills asked the pop sensation and certifiable Queen of Christmas in an interview for BBC Radio 2. ‘You know, like Katy Perry did?’

A fairly innocuous question, seeing as everyone in the world was aware of the Dark Horse’s controversial and heavily criticised all-female Blue Origin 10-minute space trip to the Kármán line – well, not everyone.

‘Did she go to space?’ asked Mariah, seemingly genuinely confused.

‘Mmhmm,’ Scott said with a nod. ‘Not for long. I think it was…’

‘Where did she go?’ said Mariah looking around at the crew and seemingly absolutely baffled, perhaps assuming she went to the moon or to a space station.


‘Alright Katy’ said Mariah (Picture: BBC Radio 2)

A crewmember informed her that she ‘just went into orbit and back’.

‘She’s like floating in the…And this is true?’ she said seeming more baffled than ever. Scott confirmed he had not made it up the news.

‘Wow,’ she said in a completely unenthused tone. ‘Alright Katy,’ she added, seeming completely unimpressed.

Mariah Carey and Katy Perry in 2015 (Picture: Mariah Carey/X)
The pair have been snapped together in the past, as seen in 2015 (Picture: Mariah Carey/X)

‘I’m not mad at her, that’s pretty amazing,’ she added.

The real question is of course, does Mariah see herself going to space one day?

‘I think I’ve done enough,’ she said with a laugh.

Fair enough!

This handout photo from Blue Origin shows US singer Katy Perry kissing the ground upon return to Earth after a flight on Blue Origin New Shepard NS-31, which brought the passengers beyond the Karman line -- the internationally recognized boundary of space, in Van Horn, West Texas, April 14, 2025. Pop star Katy Perry completed a brief foray into space Monday, roaring to the edge of the cosmos with an all-women crew on one of billionaire Jeff Bezos's rockets. The "Firework" and "California Gurls" singer was lofted more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) above the Earth's surface in a vessel from Blue Origin, the space company owned by the Amazon founder. Five other women -- including Bezos's fiancee Lauren Sanchez -- were on the flight, which took off from western Texas shortly after 8:30 am (1330 GMT) before safely landing again some (Photo by Handout / BLUE ORIGIN / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / BLUE ORIGIN " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/BLUE ORIGIN/AFP via Getty Images)
Katy kissed the ground upon returning to Earth (Picture: HANDOUT/BLUE ORIGIN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, was the billionaire tech oligarch behind the space flight Blue Origin, and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, was part of the crew.

The other women on the flight included TV host and journalist Gayle King, NASA aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, research scientist Amanda Nguyen and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.

Footage from inside the vessel showed the crew floating around before coming together for a cheer, yelling: ‘Take up space!’

Video footage showed Katy holding a flower and gazing into the camera while floating around the cabin. After landing on Earth, she held the daisy to the sky and then kissed the ground.

Although it was heavily reported at the time, Mariah was

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