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Following the release of her ‘143’ album, Katy Perry will be flung into space as part of an upcoming all-women flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
Singer and pop star Katy Perry will be heading to space early this year alongside Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Laure Sanchez, as well as CBS presenter Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
It is part of the upcoming all-women flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. Blue Origin is an American space technology company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000.
According to Blue Origin, this will be the first all-women flight to take place since the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova’s solo mission in 1963.
No official date has been confirmed for the launch yet, though it is expected to take place in the spring, given that Perry is still currently set to go on tour for her album ‘143’ from 23 April until 11 November. Ticket sales are reportedly low, however, so this could be subject to change.
In a statement, Katy said; ‘if you had told me I’d be part of the first all-female crew in space, I would have believed you. Nothing was beyond my imagination as a child.’ It brings back memories of her song E.T. from 2011. There’ll probably be slightly less alien activity this time round, mind.
The NS-31 mission will be the eleventh human spaceflight for the New Shepard rocket. The programme has launched 52 people into space so far. The trip usually lasts 11 minutes and is fully autonomous. Guests are taken just past the Karman line, which is internationally considered the official ‘edge’ of space.
While it is quite unorthodox to see a singer be sent to space, Katy isn’t the first celebrity to be involved in this type of mission by Blue Origin. Bezos himself flew the company’s first manned mission in 2021.
Since then, Good Morning America’s co-host Michael Strahan and Star Trek actor William Shatner have taken part, as well as Richard Branson.
