All-Women Blue Origin Crew Including Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez and Gayle King Going to Space
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos founded in the space company Blue Origin is sending history All female staff On the next space flight. The American spacecraft company said its 11th human mission will include Bezos’ fiancé and former journalist Lauren Sánchez, CBS host Gayle King and pop singer Katy Perry. The NS-31 mission will also be NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, Bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
The mission is part of Blue Origin’s new Shepard program, which has flown 52 people above the Kármán line, an internationally recognized boundary of space, about 62 miles above the Earth. according to Blue original websiteastronauts will rise to space at more than three times the speed of sound. Once they pass the line, the crew untied and floated enough before returning to Earth.
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The flight will be launched sometime this spring and it will mark the first all-female pilot since the 1963 solo space flight by Russian engineer Valentina Tereshkova.
Blue Origin has previously given many famous names above the Earth, including actors William ShatnerAmerican Good Morning host and retired NFL players Michael Strahan and Bezos himself.
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