Katy Perry is conquering more than just the music industry as she joins the first all-female crew heading to space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.
The singer will be joined by renowned CBS presenter Gayle King, Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn. These women, representing diverse fields, will travel to space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket as part of ‘Mission NS-31.’
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According to Blue Origin, this will be the first all-female spaceflight since the Soviet Union’s 1963 mission, which featured Valentina Tereshkova as the sole astronaut.
The NS-31 mission has yet to announce its official launch date, but it is expected to take place sometime in the spring.
Katy Perry has a busy year ahead as she prepares for her Lifetimes Tour, running from April 23 to November 11. In her Instagram post, the singer shared her excitement for this historic milestone: “If you had told me I’d be part of the first all-female crew in space, I would have believed you. Nothing was beyond my imagination as a child.”
The New Shepard rocket has undergone extensive testing and has been used for human spaceflight, with Bezos himself having previously boarded it. The NS-31 mission will mark the rocket’s 31st human spaceflight. Over time, New Shepard has launched 52 people into space.
The fully autonomous trip will last approximately 11 minutes, with no pilots on board due to the spacecraft’s design. The passengers will travel beyond the Kármán line, the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.
It was Sanchez who brought the NS-31 mission to life, having expressed her ambition to lead an all-female space crew in a 2023 interview with Vogue.
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