Singer Katy Perry will be one of the next six people to cross the space border aboard a Blue Origin rocket. He will do it in spring with five other women. Among them, Lauren Sánchez, the fiance of Jeff Bezos.
A crew composed of women. Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission will be the first with an exclusively feminine crew. Organized by Lauren Sánchez to “inspire the coming generations,” he will take six notable women above the Kármán line, the border of the space to 100 kilometers above sea level.
- Katy Perry: Pop star with 143 million albums sold and more than 115,000 million views
- Lauren Sánchez: journalist, helicopter pilot and promised of Jeff Bezos, the owner of Blue Origin
- Gayle King: journalist, co -presenter of “CBS Mornings”, editor of Oprah Daily and presenter of Gayle King in The House
- Aisha Bowe: former NASA rocket scientist, Executive Director of Stempoard and founder of Lingo
- Amanda Nguyen: Research scientist in Bioastronautics, and future first Vietnamese woman to go to space
- Kerianne Flynn: produced the movie ‘Lilly’, which portrays the trajectory of Lilly Ledbetter, the activist who achieved the right salary law in the United States
The second space flight without men. Only the Soviet Union had made a space launch without male crew. It was on June 16, 1963 aboard the Vostok 6 capsule. We refer to the historical flight of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman who traveled to space.
While Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission will be a 10-minute suborbital flight with six crew, Valentina Tereshkova flew alone and orbit the earth for almost three days, completing 48 laps around the planet. The United States did not send a woman to space, astronaut Sally Ride, until 1983.
NS-31. The mission will take place in spring. Little New Shepard rocket of liquid hydrogen will take off from the Blue Origin facilities to the west of Texas. Then he will separate from the ship in which the six crew members will go, who will make a parabolic flight of a few minutes experiencing the ingatherness.
This mission will be the eleventh manned flight of the New Shepard program. To date, the program has led 52 people above the Kármán line. On the last flight the Spanish television presenter Jesús Calleja, as part of a documentary of Mediaset and Amazon Prime Video.
And what Katy Perry says. The singer has shared the news on Instagram with the following message: “If you had told me that it would be part of the first female crew in space, I would have believed you. Nothing was above my imagination when I was a girl. Although we did not grow up with much, I never stopped looking at the wonderful and hopeful world.”
“Hard work to live my life in that way yet, and I am more motivated than ever to be an example for my daughter that women should occupy space (intentional words game). That is why this opportunity is so incredible, so that I can teach the youngest and most vulnerable among us to reach the stars, literally and figuratively. I feel honored to be among this group diverse of heavenly sisters.”
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