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Conspiracies swirl after Blue Origin ‘door gaffe’ – as vid shows hatch open ‘from inside’ before Katy Perry climbed out
Dozens of skeptics seized on the moment to claim the entire operation was staged
WILD conspiracy theories have emerged over the historic all-female Blue Origin flight into space after an apparent gaffe was spotted in the landing video.
The six women - including popstar Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sanchez - traveled just beyond the edge of space aboard reusable New Shepard rocket, before the capsule parachuted back to Earth.
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As well as Sanchez and Perry, on board the capsule were morning show icon Gayle King, ex-NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
The group flew in Bezos' own Blue Origin New Shepard NS-31 ship and soared past the Kármán line - the internationally recognized boundary of space.
They spent three minutes in pure weightlessness before the craft safely parachuted back down and landed in Texas.
Footage captured the space shuttle making a soft landing back on Earth after the historic mission.
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However, viewers spotted a bizarre gaffe in the clip that sparked a slew of conspiracy theories that slammed the mission as "fake".
In the video, Jeff Bezos is seen wrenching open the hatch from outside to let the all-women crew out of the craft.
However, footage from just minutes earlier clearly shows the capsule door being opened from the inside before being hastily shut.
Dozens of skeptics seized on the moment to claim the entire operation was staged.
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One commenter wrote: "It was fake. The girls opened the door to begin with from the inside with no tools.
"They then waited a few minutes, and Jeff Bezos stepped up with some sort of tool and acted like he unlocked the latch."
Watch first video inside Blue Origin space trip as Katy Perry and crew hang upside down & marvel at the moon
Another commenter chimed in: "Can't post this fake s*** enough. Door opens from the inside, they're told to close it because the door can ONLY be opened by an outside person."
While one commenter wrote: "This s*** is so fake. Watch the door be opened from the inside; then they need a tool to open it from the outside."
What fueled these suspicions even more is the fact that the doors were seen opening inwards, unlike most spacecraft with pressurized cabins.
Typical spacecraft have doors that open outwards and require a team of technicians working from the outside to unlock them, especially after a trip to space.
One person said: "Doesn't look like a pressurized hatch to me, more like a flimsy door."
While another commenter slammed: "Pretty sure pressurized doors don't open inwards, the capsule looks like it's an inflatable tent and the only footage they showed was the 'weightlessness' part, which you can achieve in a plane."
And for some viewers, the capsule looked too clean for a space mission.
Meanwhile, the all-women crew was seen doing somersaults while floating in space.
Perry was seen holding up the daisy she brought with her in honor of her four-year-old daughter.
Is Katy Perry technically an astronaut?
Katy Perry is not technically an astronaut, even though she went into space.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and NASA have specific requirements and designations for astronauts, which the pop star did not fulfil.
While she flew on the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket and experienced space, she didn't pilot the flight or fulfil other requirements.
Perry is considered a "space traveller" or "space tourist" rather than an astronaut.
The singer said the space mission was “the highest high” — and promised to create a song inspired by the trip.
It was later revealed that Perry sang a partial cover of "What a Wonderful World" in space.
The iconic song, first recorded by American trumpet player and singer Louis Armstrong, was belted out by the Teenage Dream star during the journey.
And Bowe was captured grinning as she showed off a patch representing the Bahamas, with Earth glowing in the background.
Meanwhile, Flynn looked to be marveling at the unbelievable view of Earth, while Nguyne smiled as she floated around in the capsule.
It marked the 11th human mission for the New Shepard program, which has now flown 52 people, including repeat flyers, to space.
Screams were heard on board the spacecraft as they blasted off.
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Jeff Bezos painfully faceplanted the ground next to the Blue Origin space capsule carrying his fiancée, Sanchez, when the crew landed.
The billionaire, who first fell head over heels for his soon-to-be wife Sanchez in 2018, was ready to congratulate his partner on the mission soon after she touched down.
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