11 Celebs Who've Flown In Space, And 10 Who Reportedly Want To Be Next In Line

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Some affluent celebs emotion to walk their wealth connected incredibly ridiculous things, and successful caller years, that has included tickets to outer space. And with NASA facing utmost imaginable fund cuts (Ars Technica reported that the Trump administration's projected fund would chopped the agency's wide fund by astir 20 percent, including reducing its subject backing by astir half), it feels poignantly out-of-touch to beryllium shelling retired a reported $600,000 for a spot connected a Virgin Galatic formation oregon $1 cardinal for a spot with Blue Origin (per Space Insider).

Here are 11 celebrated radical who've flown successful space:

1. In April 2025, Katy Perry joined the archetypal all-female abstraction flight, spending astir 4 minutes successful abstraction with Blue Origin. Per Sky News, she said, "I consciousness ace connected to love. So connected to love. I deliberation this acquisition has shown maine you ne'er cognize however overmuch emotion is wrong of you. Like, however overmuch emotion you person to springiness and however loved you are until the time you launch...I deliberation that it's not astir me. It's not astir singing my songs. It's astir a corporate vigor successful there. It's astir us. It's astir making abstraction for aboriginal women and taking up abstraction and belonging. And it's astir this fantastic satellite that we spot close retired determination and appreciating it. This is each for the payment of earth...This acquisition is 2nd to being a mom."

2. Gayle King was aboard the aforesaid abstraction formation arsenic Katy Perry. Per CBS News, aft landing, she said, "I americium truthful arrogant of maine close now. This was not a ride. What happened to america — this was a bona fide freakin' flight." She besides said, "You look down astatine the satellite and you deliberation that's wherever we came from? To me, it's specified a reminder astir however we request to bash better, beryllium better."

Responding to disapproval of the flight, she told People, "Anybody that's criticizing it doesn't truly recognize what is happening here. We tin each talk to the effect we're getting from young women, from young girls astir what this represents."

3. Per E! News, writer Lauren Sánchez, who led the all-female formation crew, told Blue Origin, "All the emotion that was successful that capsule, and each the bosom and the feelings, and seeing Jeff [Bezos, her fiancé] earlier I left, I just...I had to travel back. I mean, we're getting married! If I didn't travel back, that would beryllium a bummer for me."

She besides told People, "I get truly fired up [by criticis]. I would emotion to person them travel to Blue Origin and spot the thousands of employees that don't conscionable enactment here, but they enactment their bosom and psyche into this vehicle. They emotion their work, and they emotion the mission, and it's a large woody for them. So erstwhile we perceive comments similar that, I conscionable say, 'Trust me. Come with me. I'll amusement you what this is about, and it's, it's truly eye-opening.'"

4. Film shaper Kerianne Flynn, who's known for moving connected The Automatic Hate, This Changes Everything, and Lilly, was besides portion of the Blue Origin all-female crew. Per 11Alive, she said, "I person astir nary words. It was the astir unthinkable acquisition of my beingness to beryllium up determination and spot the...such immense acheronian successful abstraction and look down connected our planet. The satellite was truthful beautiful...I felt similar that was a peculiar acquisition conscionable for me."

5. In 2021, William Shatner flew to abstraction with Blue Origin. In his book Boldly Go: Reflections connected a Life of Awe and Wonder, helium wrote, "I had thought that going into abstraction would beryllium the eventual catharsis of that transportation I had been looking for betwixt each surviving things — that being up determination would beryllium the adjacent beauteous measurement to knowing the harmony of the universe. In the movie Contact, erstwhile Jodie Foster's quality goes to abstraction and looks retired into the heavens, she lets retired an astonished whisper, 'They should’ve sent a poet.' I had a antithetic experience, due to the fact that I discovered that the quality isn't retired there, it's down here, with each of us. Leaving that down made my transportation to our tiny satellite adjacent much profound. It was among the strongest feelings of grief I person ever encountered."

He continued, "The opposition betwixt the vicious coldness of abstraction and the lukewarm nurturing of Eearth beneath filled maine with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the cognition of further demolition of Earth astatine our hands: the extinction of carnal species, of flora and fauna... things that took 5 cardinal years to evolve, and abruptly we volition ne'er spot them again due to the fact that of the interference of mankind. It filled maine with dread. My travel to abstraction was expected to beryllium a celebration; instead, it felt similar a funeral."

"I learned aboriginal that I was not unsocial successful this feeling. It is called the 'Overview Effect' and is not uncommon among astronauts, including Yuri Gagarin, Michael Collins, Sally Ride, and galore others. Essentially, erstwhile idiosyncratic travels to abstraction and views world from orbit, a consciousness of the planet's fragility takes clasp successful an ineffable, instinctive manner. Author Frank White archetypal coined the word successful 1987: 'There are nary borders oregon boundaries connected our satellite but those that we make successful our minds oregon done quality behaviors. All the ideas and concepts that disagreement america erstwhile we are connected the aboveground statesman to slice from orbit and the moon. The effect is simply a displacement successful worldview, and successful identity,'" helium wrote.

"It tin alteration the mode we look astatine the satellite but besides different things similar countries, ethnicities, religions; it tin punctual an instant reevaluation of our shared harmony and a displacement successful absorption to each the fantastic things we person successful communal alternatively of what makes america different. It reinforced tenfold my ain presumption connected the powerfulness of our beautiful, mysterious corporate quality entanglement, and eventually, it returned a feeling of anticipation to my heart. In this insignificance we share, we person 1 acquisition that different taxon possibly bash not: we are aware — not lone of our insignificance but the grandeur astir america that makes america insignificant. That allows america possibly a accidental to rededicate ourselves to our planet, to each other, to beingness and emotion each astir us. If we prehend that chance," helium concluded.

6. Michael Strahan besides took a abstraction formation with Blue Origin successful 2021. He told ABC News, "It's specified — astir similar an out-of-body experience. It's hard to adjacent judge it happened. It's a brainsick feeling, similar the feeling of weightlessness, the feeling erstwhile the booster goes off, the rocket goes off, and it detaches and you don't cognize what's up from down. And your assemblage conscionable goes similar this, and you instrumentality disconnected a seatbelt, but naturally, it feels earthy to move."

7. In 2021, Virgin Galactic laminitis Richard Branson took his archetypal travel to space. He told Today, "I've ever dreamt astir what it would beryllium similar to beryllium successful abstraction looking backmost astatine this unthinkable earth. It's intolerable to picture conscionable however magnificent it is."

He besides shrugged disconnected disapproval that abstraction tourism is astatine likelihood with batling clime change, telling the BBC, "Communication betwixt radical is being transformed due to the fact that of abstraction question and satellites up there. Monitoring things similar the depredation of rainforests and amerciable fishing...[there are] each these kinds of benefits that travel from abstraction travel."

8. Later that aforesaid month, chap billioniare and Blue Origin laminitis Jeff Bezos joined the company's inaugural motorboat into space. According to AP News, helium called it the "best time ever" and aboriginal said, "My expectations were high, and they were dramatically exceeded."

9. Coby Cotton, a subordinate of the YouTube drama radical Dude Perfect, did a Blue Origin abstraction formation successful 2022. In a Dude Perfect video astir his acquisition (which was sponsored by MoonDAO), helium said, "That was perfectly insane...And past each of a sudden, it truly is — it's conscionable black. Just this cleanable circle, ace agleam furniture of bluish each the mode astir the earth. The biggest of each clip outcry out, MoonDAO. Truly the acquisition of a lifetime."

10. In 2025, Emily Calandrelli — aka The Space Gal, who's a TV presenter, subject communicator, engineer, and writer with implicit a cardinal TikTok followers — took a Blue Origin flight, making her the 100th pistillate successful space. In a YouTube video documenting her experience, she said, "Flying to abstraction was thing I had dreamed astir and worked toward for 2 decades, and it was everything I hoped it would beryllium and truthful overmuch more."

11. And British Olympian John Goodwin, who competed arsenic a canoeist astatine the 1972 Munich Games, took a Virgin Galactic abstraction formation successful 2023. He told Olympics.com, "I don’t acceptable retired to bash these things. It conscionable seems to beryllium successful my nature. To bash thing that precise fewer different radical person done… to person the accidental was the appeal. I had a tendency to spell to abstraction due to the fact that it appealed to my adventurous nature."

He bought his summons for the company's archetypal commercialized spaceflight each the mode backmost successful 2004. He paid $250,000 astatine the time.

And now, present are 10 celebs who reportedly bought tickets oregon got invited to alert to space, but person yet to go:

12. In a 2013 tweet, Richard Branson confirmed that Justin Bieber and his manager astatine the time, Scooter Braun, had purchased Virgin Galatic tickets. He said, "Great to perceive @justinbieber & @scooterbraun are latest @virgingalactic aboriginal astronauts. Congrats, spot you up there!" According to the BBC, astatine the time, summons outgo $250,000 a pop.

13. In 2013, the Hamilton Spectator reported that Rihanna allegedly spent $750,000 connected 3 seats aboard a Virgin Galatic formation for herself, her small member Rorrey, and a bodyguard.

14. Pete Davidson was scheduled to alert with Blue Origin successful 2022, but the institution announced successful a tweet that helium was "no longer capable to articulation the NS-20 unit connected this mission." According to the Guardian, helium was scheduled to spell arsenic a impermanent of Jeff Bezos, not a paying ticketholder.

15. Per Space Week, successful 2002, Lance Bass trained to beryllium an astronaut successful Star City, Russia. Both the Russian Space Program and NASA certified him, and helium was scheduled to alert aboard a Soyuz capsule. However, NBC News reported that, towards the extremity of the year, the Russian Aviation and Space Agency announced that he'd been removed from the flight. It was due to the fact that his squad failed to find sponsors to lend towards the astir $20 cardinal outgo of his endeavor.

16. Per Variety, astatine the 2014 amfAR auction, which supports AIDS research, Leonardo DiCaprio auctioned disconnected a spot connected a abstraction formation with him. It sold for €700,000, which was adjacent to $1 cardinal astatine the time. According to Space.com, the Virgin Galactic formation was primitively scheduled for 2015. The summons was purchased by Russian millionaire Vasily Klyukin, who successful 2014 told ABC News, "My plans of flying into abstraction haven't changed and I'm inactive going to bash it with Virgin...Now I'm conscionable waiting. I inactive imagination to spell to space."

17. Per HuffPost, successful 2011, Newscore reported that James Cameron was the archetypal idiosyncratic to splash retired $150 cardinal connected a abstraction formation summons from the abstraction tourism institution Space Adventures.

18. Per ABC News, Richard Branson reportedly talented Kate Winslet a Virgin Galactic summons erstwhile she joined his nephew, Edward Abel Smith (née Ned RocknRoll) successful 2012.

19. Per NBC News, successful 2012, Ashton Kutcher became the 500th idiosyncratic to acquisition a Virgin Galactic ticket. However, successful 2021, helium told Cheddar, "When I got joined and had kids, my woman encouraged that it was not a astute household determination to beryllium heading into abstraction erstwhile we person young children."

20. In 2008, Paris Hilton reportedly bought a Virgin Galactic ticket. She told the Guardian, "I'm precise frightened to bash it. What if I don't travel back? With the full light-years thing, what if I travel backmost 10,000 years later, and everyone I cognize is dead? I'll beryllium like, 'Great. Now I person to commencement each over.'"

21. And finally, Paris's husband, Carter Reum, besides bought a Virgin Galactic ticket. In a 2021 interview with Richard Branson connected her YouTube channel, Paris said it was "exciting."

What bash you deliberation astir celebrities going into space? Would you spell instrumentality a commercialized spaceflight if you had the accidental (or the funds)? Share your thoughts successful the comments!

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