{"id":795171,"date":"2025-04-09T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=795171"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:03:10","slug":"20-musicians-who-should-get-to-go-to-space-before-katy-perry-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=795171","title":{"rendered":"20 musicians who should get to go to space before Katy Perry : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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When the news first broke that pop star Katy Perry will hop inside a Blue Origin rocket<\/u> and blast off to outer space in a launch scheduled for April 14, NPR music editor Hazel Cills<\/u> took to an internal NPR Music Slack channel.<\/p>\n

“Quick name 20 artists who should get to go to space before Katy Perry,” she challenged.<\/p>\n

NPR staffers rose to the occasion, though one did point out that Perry isn’t entirely lacking in astronautical bona fides, having, in 2010, released a song about having intimate relations with an alien. Still, it wasn’t hard to come up with many musicians whose extra-terrestrial credentials are more convincing.<\/p>\n