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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When did passengers become a “crew?”
Jeff has been put to shame. He has not achieved the success required to control the market.
He has to resort to a publicity stunt to be sure he is noticed in the dust settling around his inability to succeed
PMS One
Bingo!! WHO is the CREW?
LOL!!
I kissed a girl in space and I liked it
“Sure, Lauren-baby, I’ll send you to space—as long as none of your fellow astronauts are male. Who do you want to go up with you?”
“Ooh, Jeffie-poo, thanks so much. Let’s find a pop star to make it seem hip. A journalist to report on it. Some kind of serious political activist to give it gravitas. Oh, and may sure they’re all very diverse!”
All ladies. What a gimmick.
'How I Met Your Mother' Space Teens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCNGO7nvyr4
Hopefully she stays there
It says “Journalist” followed by “Gayle King”. I guess budget cuts got someone’s editor.
I read the headline and for some reason my gut felt ill.
Eh. Hope it’s wrong.
katy perry is unrecognizable, btw. I couldn’t pick her out until I saw the caption at the source.
11 minutes...kinda ridiculous.
Thinking the same thing.
They used to be monkeys or dogs.
Katy Perry...isn’t she some sort of chubby has-been?
I didn’t care for the show, but that bit was hillarious.
Are any of the ladies actually tranny men?
In this day and age it has to be asked.
🤔
Will Blue Origin change the toxic masculine shape of the spacecraft?
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