Katy Perry is one of the six all women crew scheduled on the next Blue Origin spaceflight set to make history.
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Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos‘ aerospace company, is sending an all-women crew into space on its next flight. In addition to Perry, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, and Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sánchez, who "brought the crew together,” will also be taking the rocket ride, the 11th human spaceflight for the company on the New Shepard rocket, according to Blue Origin.
As announced by the company on Thursday, February 27, the NS-31 mission, set to take off from the West Texas desert in the spring of 2025, will also include Bahamian-American aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn. As of now, there is no specific date for the launch.
Reported by Blue Origin to be the first all-woman flight since the Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963, the 11-minute journey will see the crew of the New Shepard soar past the Kármán line - the internationally recognized boundary of space, to experience several minutes of weightlessness and witness views of Earth through windows that take up more than one-third of the capsule’s surface area.
"Every person on board is a crew member — there are no pilots," according to a statement from Blue Origin, which noted that as a fully autonomous vehicle, the New Shepard has no specialized roles for the crew.
“This flight will undoubtedly prove to be a life-changing experience for each of us, and I’m honored to be with such an incredible group of explorers,” said Sánchez. “Most importantly, I am looking forward to all the women in this crew sharing their story and inspiring future generations to dream big.”