This whole “outrage” about her going up in a commercial spaceship and being emotionally moved by the experience feels entirely manufactured and smells faintly gross. William Shatner of “Star Trek” fame did the same trip and had the same emotional reaction and I don’t remember a single person saying he wasn’t a ‘real’ astronaut. The arguments that she isn’t one ring hollow as well, because I can differentiate between a NASA astronaut and a commercial tourist astronaut and there’s a ton of difference between the two, but both of them went to space. Sorta. There’s actually an interesting conversation about how far up these various companies are going, but that has nothing to do with Katy Perry.