Katy Perry and Oprah Winfrey‘s best friend Gayle King are headed to space with Jeff Bezos‘ fiancée Lauren Sanchez and three other women.
Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced the all-female celebrity crew on Thursday in Florida’s Cape Canaveral (overnight in Australia).
Sanchez, a helicopter pilot and former TV journalist, picked the crew who will join her on a 10-minute spaceflight from West Texas, the company said.
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They will blast off sometime this spring (late March to late June in the United States) aboard a New Shepard rocket.
No launch date was given.
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Blue Origin has flown tourists on short hops to space since 2021.
Some passengers have gotten free rides, while others have paid a hefty sum to experience weightlessness.
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It was not immediately known who’s footing the bill for this upcoming flight.
Sanchez invited singer Perry and TV journalist King, as well as a former NASA rocket scientist who now heads an engineering firm Aisha Bowe, research scientist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn.
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This will be Blue Origin’s 11th human spaceflight.
Bezos climbed aboard with his brother for the inaugural flight.
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