Apparently Katie Perry is going to space.
According to USA Today: “A group of six women that includes CBS host Gayle King and pop star Katy Perry are preparing to blast off on a historic all-female commercial spaceflight in one week. When a Blue Origin spacecraft gets off the ground, the crew of women will become the latest humans to be treated to a brief trip to the edge of space courtesy of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ space technology company.”
Blue Origin, which Bezos started in 2000, has been offering the cosmic joyrides to celebrities and other paying customers since its New Shepard spacecraft began crewed launches in 2021. The launch, scheduled for Monday in West Texas, will be the company’s 11th human flight and 31st flight overall.
This trip has hopes to set history, as it will be the first all female flight since 1963. There will be six women going on the ship.
The members are:
Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist, CEO of engineering firm STEMBoard and founder of LINGO, which teaches students technology skills.
Amanda Nguyen, a prominent civil rights activist and bioastronautics research scientist who worked on the last NASA space shuttle mission, STS-135, and the U.S. space agency’s exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope.
Gayle King, a journalist and television personality best known as a co-host of “CBS Mornings.”
Katy Perry, a pop music artist and former host of “American Idol.”
Flynn, a film producer known for her contributions to “This Changes Everything,” a 2018 documentary about sexism in Hollywood.
Lauren Sánchez, an Emmy Award-winning journalist who is the fiancée of Bezos.
New Shepard launch window opens at 9:30 a.m. E.T.
Katy Perry, along with an all-female crew, will be in space for approximately 11 minutes on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, reaching a height of about 65 miles above Earth.
