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Pop Star Katy Perry Set for Out-of-This-World Adventure
Get ready for liftoff! Pop superstar Katy Perry is about to trade her stage for space as she joins five other women on a groundbreaking trip to the edge of the cosmos.
This exciting journey, scheduled for Monday at 9:30 a.m. ET, will see Perry and her crewmates launch aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket from Van Horn, Texas. The all-female crew includes CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, journalist and Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen, and movie producer Kerianne Flynn.
This mission marks a historic moment, boasting the first all-female space crew since Valentina Tereshkova’s pioneering solo orbit in 1963.
The roughly 10-minute flight will propel the crew past the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space 62 miles above Earth. After experiencing a few minutes of weightlessness, the capsule will descend via parachutes, landing back in the Texas desert.
This will be the 11th human-crewed flight for Blue Origin’s New Shepard system, named after the first American in space, Alan Shepard. The autonomous system is designed for suborbital spaceflight without a pilot.
Blue Origin has a history of hosting celebrity space tourists, including actor William Shatner, former NFL star Michael Strahan, Laura Shepard Churchley (daughter of Alan Shepard), and Jeff Bezos himself. The cost of a ticket remains undisclosed, adding a touch of mystery to this star-studded space venture.
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