Blue Origin’s First All-Female Spaceflight to Feature Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez- wna24

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is all set to embark on a historic spaceflight with a star-studded crew, including pop star Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez, who is also billionaire Jeff Bezos’ fiancée.

The six-member, all-female crew also includes research scientist Amanda Nguyen, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket is designed to fly paying customers to the edge of space and back for a quick taste of weightlessness on a roughly 11-minute trip.

The mission is set to lift off this spring and will mark the first all-female spaceflight crew since 1963, when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made her historic solo flight.

Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 with the aim of helping tourists and celebrities explore space. The company recently conducted the first orbital test flight of its larger rocket, New Glenn.

Bezos himself first flew into space in July 2021 with three other passengers.

Other celebrities who have participated in Blue Origin missions include actor William Shatner—who was 90 years old—and Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan, who flew in December 2021.

Sánchez and Perry will embark on the New Shepard mission, launching from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas.

The experience typically lasts 10 or 11 minutes, from liftoff to landing, with passengers experiencing microgravity as their capsule soars beyond the Kármán line for a few minutes.

Blue Origin said in a statement that this mission will be the 11th human flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in the company’s history.

To date, the program has flown 52 people above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space. This will be the first all-female flight crew since Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963, the company added.