All-female crew, including singer Katy Perry, set to blast off on Blue Origin rocket

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· Posted: Apr 14, 2025 9:03 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Pop prima Katy Perry and journalists Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, who is besides billionaire Jeff Bezos's fiancée, underwent final preparations this play earlier blasting disconnected into abstraction connected a Blue Origin rocket connected Monday.

The motorboat model is scheduled to unfastened at 9:30 am ET, according to the Blue Origin website. The rocket volition blast disconnected from the company's West Texas motorboat site.

The ngo consists of the archetypal all-female formation unit successful much than six decades. Other unit members see astrophysicist Aisha Bowe, activistic and bioastronautics researcher Amanda Nguyen and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.

The New Shepard rocket, an 18-metre suborbital spacecraft, volition transportation the unit to the Kármán line, the internationally recognized bound of space, Bezos-owned Blue Origin said successful a connection published connected Feb. 27.

Passengers volition acquisition a fewer minutes of microgravity earlier returning to Earth via parachute-assisted landing successful the West Texas desert.

This is the 11th quality formation for the rocket and its 31st overall. The past recorded all-female spaceflight was the 1963 solo ngo of Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the archetypal pistillate successful space.