The Blue Origin celebrity flight will launch Monday morning Katy Perry, Gayle King and more
The all-women Blue Origin crew, with celebrities Gayle King and Katy Perry, is set to take flight Monday morning on the commercial spacecraft, New Shepard.
Once the vehicle gets off the ground, it will represent the 31st overall spaceflight for the New Shepard, including the 11th with humans on board.
But no pilots or trained active government astronauts are ever on board the spacecraft, composed of both a rocket and a crew capsule. Instead, the vehicle flies itself autonomously with up to six passengers, some of whom have been notable celebrities like actor William Shatner and NFL legend Michael Strahan.
Here's what to know and how to watch the launch.
New Shepard's launch window opens at 9:30 a.m. ET Monday, according to Blue Origin.
Like all of Blue Origin launches, the vehicle will lift off at Launch Site One, a private ranch in rural West Texas more than 140 miles east of El Paso.
Six women were selected to be part of the next Blue Origin commercial spaceflight, a mission known as NS-31.
Here's a look:
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."
Kerianne 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.
While you won't be able to see the takeoff from Indiana, you can watch the launch via livestream.
USA TODAY will livestream the launch and you can find that at the top of the article below.
Watch LIVE: Katy Perry, Gayle King, 4 other women prepare for Blue Origin launch
Blue Origin will provide a livestream of the takeoff beginning prior to the launch window opening on its website.
The company has yet to share any specific webcast details, but a YouTube simulcast is scheduled to go live on launch day. Blue Origin will also be covering the launch live on X starting at 8 a.m. EDT.
CBS will also provide coverage of the launch on its network and through its streaming service Paramount+. Coverage begins at 7 a.m. EDT during "CBS Mornings" and continues at 9 a.m. with a special segment, "Gayle goes to Space."
Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, owns Blue Origin. He also boarded the New Shepard for its maiden voyage with a crew in July 2021.
Ever since then, the spacecraft has been a poignant symbol of Blue Origin's commercial spaceflight ambitions amid a growing space tourism industry.
This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Where to watch Blue Origin launch: Livestreams, live TV and on streaming
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