India, April 18 -- When pop icon Katy Perry and seasoned journalist Gayle King, along with others, blasted off on an 11-minute suborbital journey with Blue Origin, it was hailed as a groundbreaking moment for women in space tourism. But while the historic all-female flight made headlines around the world, a storm of conspiracy theories quickly followed.

Now, internet sleuths and keyboard detectives have zeroed in on one particularly strange detail, claiming it's the smoking gun that proves the whole mission was an elaborate hoax.

Following Perry's short visit to space, a conspiracy theory that has been doing the rounds on X (formerly known as Twitter) suggested that the singer's hair was floating in the wrong direction. Thus, indicating...