Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, and others went to fake space?

What do you get when you mix pop royalty, billionaires, and zero gravity? Apparently, a conspiracy theory so chaotic it could outshine the actual rocket launch. Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez made headlines for joining Blue Origin’s NS-31 all-female space flight,  but the internet had other ideas.

While Jeff Bezos’ space company hailed the flight as a momentous leap for women in space tourism, X (formerly Twitter) users were more concerned about... hair physics and forbidden bling. Yes, really.

Hair today, hoax tomorrow?

First up in this cosmic controversy: Katy Perry’s hair. A bunch of eagle-eyed internet sleuths couldn’t help but notice that her hair seemed a little too... controlled during the zero-gravity scenes. Unlike NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, whose wild floating mane became a low-orbit legend, Perry’s strands were suspiciously chill.

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One user even pointed out that Williams’ hair once freaked out former U.S. President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Perry’s barely moved. “When I go underwater, my hair floats in every direction. Space is way more floaty than water — so what’s going on with Katy’s hair?” another user questioned.

And not only that, a huge chunk of the internet really thinks that it was a complete hoax.

I’m still mad that they dumb ass think we finna believe Katy Perry just went to space.

— madisennnnn (@imbackinnatmode) April 19, 2025

Spoiler alert: Perry's hair might have just been set by elite stylists pre-launch, while Williams had been surviving space life with no access to a proper shower for months. Context matters, folks.

Sánchez’s ring and Gayle King’s ghost hand? We are spiraling

If the hair was not enough to launch a thousand TikToks, Lauren Sánchez’s sparkly ring definitely added fuel to the fiery debate. Internet truthers were quick to scream “fraud!” because big jewellery pieces are typically a no-go in space missions due to safety protocols. So how did her massive ring make it aboard?

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And let us not forget Gayle King’s hand, which allegedly “vanished” mid-air during a floating shot. One TikTok creator urged viewers to slow down the footage and see it for themselves — proclaiming it as the ultimate green screen proof. “What are they distracting us from?” they questioned ominously.

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But the mystery hand was simply a by-product of bad video compression. The original video uploaded by Blue Origin shows no such vanishing act. Experts have even pointed out that third-party reposts, often riddled with overlapping logos, tend to glitch out like this. So maybe not the smoking gun everyone hoped for.

She’s cosplaying as Katy Perry in space pic.twitter.com/BjfDDAp86s

— Kai Muller (@kaikaiohwhy) April 19, 2025

The final verdict: Space tea is hot, but the facts are hotter

Despite the drama, the NS-31 mission was still a landmark moment for women in space tourism. But clearly, no rocket can fly fast enough to outrun the internet’s imagination. Between Katy Perry’s gravity-defying glam, Sánchez’s space ring, and Gayle’s alleged ghost hand, Blue Origin’s latest launch has officially reached galactic gossip levels.

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As one user wrote (and probably regretted later), “If it looks fake, it probably is.” Or maybe, just maybe — it’s 2025, and even space has a PR team.