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Blue Origin rocket with all-female crew, including Katy Perry, set for Monday launch
ABC News | Disney ^
| April 14, 2025
| By Kevin Shalvey
Posted on 04/14/2025 5:52:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Six women, including pop star Katy Perry, are scheduled to be launched into space for about 11 minutes on Monday on a Blue Origin rocket, a lift-off that would mark the first all-female spaceflight since 1963, according to the company.
The window for the latest New Shepard rocket launch is expected to open on Monday morning at about 8:30 a.m. CDT, according to Blue Origin.
long with Perry, the crew includes Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos' journalist fiance, Lauren Sanchez, who is also a helicopter pilot.
Journalist Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn round out the flight crew, according to Blue Origin.
The flight will last only around 11 minutes and reach a height of about 65 miles above Earth. The Kármán line, considered the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space, is 62 miles, so Perry and her fellow crew members will not actually be launched into orbit.
The most-recent all-female spaceflight was Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963, Blue Origin said.
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To: 1Old Pro
Whoop. De. Do.
Much ado about nothing.
But feminists everywhere seem to think this is a big deal somehow.
When you pick up your date to drive her to a restaurant and back, I guess she’s now “crew”.
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posted on
04/14/2025 7:13:18 AM PDT
by
SharpenedEdge
(Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
To: ChronicMA
I once kissed a girl on the veranda.
To: central_va
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posted on
04/14/2025 7:14:50 AM PDT
by
redangus
( )
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It’s not a crew, it’s a half dozen self important tourists. Hard pass.
To: redangus
She’s mine, leave her alone.
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posted on
04/14/2025 7:16:18 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
...wondering what could possibly go wrong....
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posted on
04/14/2025 7:17:48 AM PDT
by
13Sisters76
("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
To: Tell It Right
It’s the penis rocket. May be the first time some of these girls have ridden one…🤣
107
posted on
04/14/2025 7:19:51 AM PDT
by
9422WMR
To: kosciusko51; dfwgator
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Suborbital flight. They will be up and down in less than 15 minutes. "Coming and going and going and coming, and always too soon."
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posted on
04/14/2025 7:19:59 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Guess I hadn’t been paying attention, but that rocket looks more like a male member than any others I’ve seen.
To: dayglored
“Was it good for you mission control?” Cigarettes upon splashdown.
110
posted on
04/14/2025 7:21:17 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Does it have to be a round trip?
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posted on
04/14/2025 7:21:32 AM PDT
by
Fireone
(1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
To: dayglored
To: central_va
113
posted on
04/14/2025 7:23:02 AM PDT
by
redangus
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To: central_va
Notice the phallic shape of the space craft.Yeah. To say nothing of the weird arrow/smirk/smile of the Amazon logo. Look at it again after noticing the shape of the spacecraft. Bezos has issues.
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posted on
04/14/2025 7:24:13 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
To: PghBaldy
Wonder if they will be able to explain the dent in the side when they get back?
115
posted on
04/14/2025 7:25:12 AM PDT
by
bray
(It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
To: IYAS9YAS
The spacex mohel did do some nice work.
116
posted on
04/14/2025 7:25:39 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: bray
Wonder if they will be able to explain the dent in the side when they get back?It was a shopping cart from the space station.
117
posted on
04/14/2025 7:26:36 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: mairdie
Those two still haven’t married? Isn’t their daughter 4 or 5 by now?
118
posted on
04/14/2025 7:26:44 AM PDT
by
FamiliarFace
(I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
To: FamiliarFace
No, not married. Perennially engaged. Wonder what his divorce from Miranda Kerr did to his desire to remarry.
119
posted on
04/14/2025 7:29:48 AM PDT
by
mairdie
To: hinckley buzzard
Unannounced flight plan change. Sorry Elon, they are going to Mars.
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posted on
04/14/2025 7:31:29 AM PDT
by
CdMGuy
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