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Pop star Katy Perry and reporters Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, who is likewise billionaire Jeff Bezos’s bride-to-be, are set to launch into area on a Blue Origin rocket, marking the very first all-female flight team in more than 6 years.
The trio will belong to an all-female team on objective with Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin
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· Published: Feb 27, 2025 4:26 PM EST|Last Updated: February 27
Pop star Katy Perry and reporters Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, who is likewise billionaire Jeff Bezos’s bride-to-be, are set to launch into area on a Blue Origin rocket, marking the very first all-female flight team in more than 6 years.
The New Shepard rocket, an 18-metre suborbital spacecraft, will bring the team to the Kármán line, the globally acknowledged border of area, Bezos-owned Blue Origin stated in a declaration.
Travelers will experience a couple of minutes of microgravity before going back to Earth through parachute-assisted landing in the West Texas desert.
NASA rocket researcher Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics scientist Amanda Nguyen and motion picture manufacturer Kerianne Flynn will comprise the remainder of the team.
The business has actually not revealed a date for the objective.
This is the 11th human flight for the rocket and its 31st general.
The last taped all-female spaceflight was the 1963 solo objective of Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the very first lady in area.
New Shepard’s very first crewed flight in July 2021 brought Jeff Bezos and his sibling Mark. The rocket has actually considering that taken previous NFL gamer Michael Strahan and Star Trek star William Shatner, who ended up being the earliest individual in area at the age to 90.
The business’s huge New Glenn rocket launched from Florida last month on its very first objective to area, an inaugural enter Earth’s orbit for Bezos’s area business as it intends to competing SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, in the satellite launch company.
Blue Origin, SpaceX and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic have actually come under criticism for the ecological effect of their journeys into area as the emerging “space tourism” market grows.
The leisure area flights have actually been called out by some as hypocritical and a gross screen of wealth from business people who have actually openly depicted themselves as allies in the battle versus environment modification.
With files from CBC News
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