Katy Perry may have been roundly mocked for her conduct during and after her all-women Blue Origin space flight on April 14, but it seems to have unironically inspired Joe Rogan. The UFC commentator, of course, was one of the people who made fun of Perry and her co-passengers’ around eleven-minute space flight where they went up to 62 miles from the earth’s surface, the official point at which space begins, and even briefly experienced weightlessness.

And the Texas resident, talking to comedian and podcaster Tim Dillon on episode #2307 of his JRE podcast, where they trolled the all-women space flight, did admit that he would be up for a similar brief foray into space. “Are they even like technically actually in space?” Rogan asked.

The UFC commentator then went on to say, “I might go there, I might do that. I wouldn’t go to space base, but I might do the 80 miles. [I would] do that. So 350 miles is the highest anyone has ever gone other than the Apollo astronauts. 62 miles ain’t s–t, dude I drive that in an hour, you know what I’m saying… It’s not that far, that’s not even here to San Antonio. 62 miles ain’t s–t, but it is kind of technically space.”

This would be pretty brave of Rogan. But speaking about wanting to go to space on his podcast and doing it are two different things. After all, space tourism is in the very nascent stages of its development. And like all budding technologies, it has a fair amount of risks involved.

Not to mention, if the famously loyal Joe Rogan is going to go to space, he might want to do that on his good friend, Elon Musk’s SpaceX craft, rather than Musk’s biggest space tech competitor, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin craft. But is the South African-born billionaire even interested in space tourism? In good news for Rogan, he is, and has some lofty ambitions for the same.

Elon Musk’s ambitious plans for space tourism

SpaceX, too, has promised space tourism in the near future. The Elon Musk-owned company, of course, was the first to successfully implement reusable rockets and has a proven track record of extensive space flight. Just last month, they sent their Dragon spacecraft to rescue Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who had been stuck on the International Space Station for the past nine months.

So we know that SpaceX crafts can ferry humans as far as 250 miles from the earth’s surface since that is approximately how far the ISS maintains orbit from surface. Perhaps this is why Musk’s space tourism plans are much more ambitious than Space Origin’s are at the moment.

While Jeff Bezos’ company is promising a much shorter trip, the SpaceX website is offering space tourists a chance to “Experience our Home Planet from over 300 km [186 miles] up” over a three to six-day period. In addition, the website is promising a ten-day sojourn to the ISS, a chance to visit the moon, and even a trip to Mars! The company is already soliciting interested parties to contact them, but an exact timeline for when it hopes to launch the first space tourism spacecraft isn’t clear at the moment.

But if he so wants, Rogan could take one of SpaceX’s crafts to go to space. The only problem is that even the shortest trips are at least three days. But then again, the UFC commentator is good friends with Elon Musk and could have a word with him to shorten the duration of the space flight. What do you think about Joe Rogan’s desire to go to space?