{"id":18515,"date":"2025-04-15T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/katy-perrys-blast-off-was-a-waste-of-space-letters\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:37:45","slug":"katy-perrys-blast-off-was-a-waste-of-space-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/katy-perrys-blast-off-was-a-waste-of-space-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Perry\u2019s blast-off was a waste of space | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin \u2018crew\u2019 | Vanity mission | Privileged ladies | Travel tech | Overheard in hospital<\/p>\n<p>Lauren S\u00e1nchez, Katy Perry and their companions were no more \u201ccrew\u201d of the Blue Origin than my family and I were crew of the British Airways flight from Marrakech to Gatwick on Sunday as we returned from holiday (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/apr\/14\/blue-origin-rocket-launch\">Blue Origin crew including Katy Perry safely returns to Earth after space flight, 14 April<\/a>). We were all, in fact, passengers. <br \/><strong>Dan Stacey<\/strong><br \/><em>London<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It doesn\u2019t bother me if Jeff Bezos wants to give his wife-to-be a hen party in space, but what does bother me is the environmental damage caused by this vanity project. It shows selfishness and irresponsibility on a colossal scale.<br \/><strong>Chris Burr<\/strong><br \/><em>Stoford, Somerset<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/apr\/15\/katy-perrys-blast-off-was-a-waste-of-space\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/951b4661e4bdd0c2dd2f03516f7df28201369552\/0_129_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8a7bded6370101baefac094e90c1855e\" title=\"Katy Perry\u2019s blast-off was a waste of space | Letters\" \/>Blue Origin \u2018crew\u2019 | Vanity mission | Privileged ladies | Travel tech | Overheard in hospital<br \/>\nLauren S\u00e1nchez, Katy Perry and their companions were no more \u201ccrew\u201d of the Blue Origin than my family and I were crew of the British Airways flight from Marrakech to Gatwick on Sunday as we returned from holiday (Blue Origin crew including Katy Perry safely returns to Earth after space flight, 14 April). We were all, in fact, passengers. Dan StaceyLondon<br \/>\n\u2022 It doesn\u2019t bother me if Jeff Bezos wants to give his wife-to-be a hen party in space, but what does bother me is the environmental damage caused by this vanity project. It shows selfishness and irresponsibility on a colossal scale.Chris BurrStoford, Somerset Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin \u2018crew\u2019 | Vanity mission | Privileged ladies | Travel tech | Overheard in hospital Lauren S\u00e1nchez, Katy Perry and their companions were no more \u201ccrew\u201d of the Blue Origin than my family and I were crew of the British Airways flight from Marrakech to Gatwick on Sunday as we returned from holiday (Blue &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/katy-perrys-blast-off-was-a-waste-of-space-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Katy Perry\u2019s blast-off was a waste of space | Letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}