Houston, Miss USA has landed. When Miss USA R’Bonney Gabriel took the stage within the Miss Universe 2023 Nationwide Costume Present this week, she wore the moon.Â
Gabriel’s costume, an homage to NASA’s Apollo 11 lunar touchdown and  present Artemis program, included an precise scale-sized moon held up over her head by an intricate body surrounded by gleaming silver stars and an outfit bedecked by pink, white and blue lights. She carried an American flag to finish the look.Â
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“On July 20, 1969 two U.S. astronauts turned the primary people to step foot on the moon carrying out one of the crucial outstanding achievements in human historical past. Quick ahead to right now and ladies are concerned greater than ever within the Artemis program aiming to ship the US again to the moon,” Gabriel (opens in new tab), 28. wrote of the costume on Instagram (opens in new tab) by way of her clothes model R’Bonney Nola.Â
“As a Houston native, the place the NASA space middle is positioned, I’m proud to be from a metropolis working to ship the primary feminine to the moon,” she added.
Houston is the situation of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, house of the company’s Mission Management Middle for human spaceflight mission and astronaut coaching facilities.
“The aim of this costume was to encourage ladies in all areas throughout the universe to dream huge, shoot for the moon and obtain one thing out of this world,” Gabriel wrote.
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Gabriel, the primary Filipina American Miss USA, selected Filipino designer Patrick Isorena (opens in new tab) to create the costume. Isorena additionally designed Gabriel’s Miss Texas costume within the Miss USA 2022 pageant, in response to ABS CBN News. (opens in new tab)Â Isorena advised ABS CBN Information that the costume weighs as much as 33 kilos (15 kilograms).
The Miss Universe 2023 pageant wraps up tonight (Jan. 14) in New Orleans. The Nationwide Costume Present occurred on Thursday (Jan. 12). You’ll be able to see the complete Nationwide Costume Present under.Â
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