Mariah Carey's hilarious reaction to Katy Perry's space trip
Mariah Carey just learned that Katy Perry went to space, and her reaction has social media users in stitches.
It's been 116 days since Katy Perry travelled to space and back faster than you can make a grilled cheese sandwich.
Still, Mariah Carey is totally oblivious to this spectacular moment in history.
The 'Sugar Sweet' singer admitted - unashamedly, we might add - that she had no idea Perry was floating in space in April.
She made the admission during an interview with BBC Radio 2's 'The Scott Mills Breakfast Show'. Carey was asked if she would follow in Perry's footsteps and go to space.
"Did she go to space?" Carey asked. Mills replied, with a touch of shade, "Mm-hmm. Not for long."
Perry's entire trip to the cosmos lasted about 11 minutes.
Carey was shocked, but genuinely curious.
"Where did she go?" she asked. Someone off-camera tells her that the 'Firework' singer went into orbit and back.
"She's, like, floating in the... and this is true?" Satisfied that the story was legit, Carey seemed quite impressed.
"Wow. Alright, Katy," she said. "I'm not mad at her. That's pretty amazing."
However, Carey made it clear that she had no plans to blast off into space anytime soon. "I think I've done enough."
Social media users found it hilarious that the singer was clueless about all the commotion Perry caused with her trip to the great beyond.
"I honestly wish I was as oblivious to that whole thing as our Mariah clearly is," an Instagram user commented.
Another user added: "I love that Mariah just lives in her own bubble! What a queen.
A third said, "Joy of missing out is real after 40s."
Did Katy Perry really go to space?
Technically, Perry only made it as far as the Kármán line, the globally recognised space boundary.
It's space, but not going to the moon space, which takes at least three days.
Perry didn't exactly get her astronaut wings, but she did make history. It was the first all-woman spaceflight in decades.
It was also the first time that Blue Origin, which billionaire Jeff Bezos owns, sent a female crew on one of its human spaceflights.
The company is involved in space tourism and offers suborbital trips on its New Shepard rocket.
Five other women were on the flight with Perry, including Bezos's then fiancée, Lauren Sánchez and Oprah Winfrey's bestie, Gayle King.
Perry carried a flower in honour of her daughter, Daisy Dove.
"It's about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging and it's about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth," she said about the trip.
Now, if you will excuse us, we will be checking on our grilled cheese sandwich.
✨ Weightless and limitless. pic.twitter.com/GQgHd0aw7i
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) April 14, 2025
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