Blue Origin, a space company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is making history by sending all-female staff on the next space flight. The American spacecraft company said its 11th human mission will include Bezos’ fiancé and former journalist Lauren Sánchez, CBS host Gayle King and pop singer Katy Perry. The NS-31 mission will also be NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, Bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
The mission is part of Blue Origin’s new Shepard program, which has flown 52 people above the Kármán line, an internationally recognized boundary of space, about 62 miles above the Earth. According to the Blue Origin website, astronauts will rise to space at more than three times the speed of sound. Once they pass the line, the crew untied and floated enough before returning to Earth.
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The flight will be launched sometime this spring and it will mark the first all-female pilot since the 1963 solo space flight by Russian engineer Valentina Tereshkova.
Blue Origin has previously taken many famous names on Earth, including actor William Shatner, Good Morning America host and retired NFL player Michael Strahan and Bezos himself.
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