Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos‘ aerospace company, is sending an all-women crew into space on its next flight — including singer Katy Perry, CBS News co-host Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez, who is Bezos’s fiancée.
The firm introduced the flight on the NS-31 mission, set to launch within the spring of 2025. The crew additionally consists of aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn.
According to Blue Origin, Sánchez “brought the mission together. She is honored to lead a team of explorers on a mission that will challenge their perspectives of Earth, empower them to share their own stories, and create lasting impact that will inspire generations to come.”
“I don’t know how to explain being terrified and excited at the same time. It’s like how I felt about to deliver a baby,” King mentioned through the announcement on “CBS Mornings.”
The flight will launch this spring. The mission would be the eleventh human flight for Blue Origin’s New Shepard program and the thirty first in its historical past. To date, this system has flown 52 individuals above the Kármán line, the internationally acknowledged boundary of house. This is the primary all-female flight crew since Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963.