Katy Perry is Going to Space With An All-Female Celebrity Crew
Katy Perry seemingly has some good friends in really high places.
The 40-year-old pop singer was recently selected to be among five other celebrity women who will be taking a trip to the outside of Earth's atmosphere in an upcoming Blue Origin (a space technology company owned by Jeff Bezos) mission. According to the announcement, which was posted on the company's website on Thursday, February 27, Perry will be embarking on the journey alongside Jeff Bezos' fiancé, Lauren Sánchez.
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The statement also reported that the 'Dark Horse' singer was invited to be a part of the all-woman spaceflight crew by Sánchez, 55, who put the crew together. Outside of Perry, the billionaire's wife-to-be selected former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen, award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Mornings Gayle King, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
Blue Origin has been sending people to space for short periods of time since 2021, and this will be the company's 31st mission and 11th human flight in their New Shepard program. The announcement also specified that the company had previously flown 52 individuals above the internationally recognized boundary of space, which is called the Kármán line.
Despite having no set date just yet, the company did announce that the crew will blast off into space sometime in the spring. The celebrity crew is set to be the first all-female flight crew since 1963, when Valentina Tereshkova went on a solo spaceflight.
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