{"id":52774,"date":"2025-04-14T13:08:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/katy-perry-blasts-off-with-all-women-crew-on-blue-origin-rocket\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:08:38","slug":"katy-perry-blasts-off-with-all-women-crew-on-blue-origin-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/katy-perry-blasts-off-with-all-women-crew-on-blue-origin-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Perry blasts off with all-women crew on Blue Origin rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A crew of six women, including Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos’s fianc\u00e9e Lauren Sanchez, are due to launch into space for an 11-minute flight.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Pop star Katy Perry and five other women are set to blast into space aboard Jeff Bezos’ space tourism rocket.<\/p>\n

The singer will be joined by Bezos’s fianc\u00e9e Lauren S\u00e1nchez and CBS presenter Gayle King.<\/p>\n

The New Shepard rocket is due to lift off from its West Texas launch site and the launch window opens at 08:30 local time (14:30 BST). You’ll be able to follow the launch live here<\/a> on the BBC website. <\/p>\n

The flight will last around 11 minutes and take the crew more than 100km (62 miles) above Earth, crossing the internationally recognised boundary of space and giving the crew a few moments of weightlessness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Also on board are former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.<\/p>\n

The spacecraft is fully autonomous, requiring no pilots, and the crew will not manually operate the vehicle.<\/p>\n

The capsule will return to Earth with a parachute-assisted soft landing, while the rocket booster will land itself around two miles away from the launch site.<\/p>\n

“If you had told me that I would be part of the first-ever all-female crew in space, I would have believed you. Nothing was beyond my imagination as a child. Although we didn’t grow up with much, I never stopped looking at the world with hopeful WONDER!” Mrs Perry said in a social media post.<\/p>\n

Blue Origin says the last all-female spaceflight was over 60 years ago when Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space on a solo mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6. <\/p>\n

Since then, there have been no other all-female spaceflights but women have made numerous significant contributions. <\/p>\n

Katy Perry gave her followers a sneak peek of the capsule she’s training to launch aboard the New Shepard, all while in her spacesuit. <\/p>\n

She revealed her call sign as “Feather” and showed where her fellow astronauts \u2013 the “Taking Up Space” crew \u2013 would be and expressed her excitement about singing in space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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