Pop star Katy Perry and CBS’s Gayle King are set to fly to space alongside Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez, on an upcoming all-women flight of Blue Origin’s tourist rocket.
In a blog post on Thursday, Blue Origin announced the next six-person crew of its New Shepard rocket, which also includes Kerianne Flynn — a producer — Aisha Bowe — a former NASA scientist and chief executive officer of STEMBoard — and Amanda Nguyen — a bioastronautics research scientist and advocate for survivors of sexual violence.
Sánchez first announced plans to fly to space on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket with an entirely female crew back in 2023, when speaking with Vogue. At the time, she said the women were all remarkable and they were all “paving the way for women.”
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket is designed to fly paying customers to the edge of space and back for a quick taste of weightlessness on a roughly 11-minute trip.