Star's trek hardly rocket science

THEY say that in space no one can hear you scream.

- SUSAN LEE

Sadly, that wasn't the case this week as the women inside the Blue Origin rocket proved, shrieking and crying and generally sounding like a gang of gals on the back seat of the bus after a particularly heavy bottomless brunch session.

Don't get me wrong. I'd probably shriek too if I was being fired to the edge of space but that would be through utter terror. I went a bit fuzzy the last time I was at the top of Blackpool Tower so a trip 62 miles above the earth would not be for me.

It was, however, very much for the singer Katy Perry, her mate Lauren Sánchez the fiancée of rocket owner Jeff Bezos and an assortment of other chums who were all blasted upwards for an 11-minute flight.