Katy Perry and others took a brief flight aboard the Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, reaching the Kármán Line, but the article questions whether this qualifies as 'going to space.' The Kármán Line serves as an ambiguous boundary of space, and despite reaching it, the flight's brevity raises doubts about the nature of their experiences. The discussion shows that many factors go into defining what it means to travel to space, highlighting a growing trend of celebrity space flights contrasting with scientific definitions.
Each time, the press deferentially reports that the travelers went "to space" or "to outer space," yet the definition of "space" remains ambiguous.
Charitably, let's grant that the Kármán Line does represent the edge of space, but it raises the question: Have these celebrities genuinely 'been to space'? The issue is about experience.
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