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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Sounds very stylish.
Yeah, yeah, girl power right? Remember, early on crews for space shots were dogs and monkeys. Just sayin’.
Exactly. It’s a flight controlled by computers and mission control. The humans on board are merely cargo.
I’ll do as Thumper’s mom said and not say anything at all.
Be funny if Elon and Space X will end up rescuing them.
I'm surprised they didn't invite Dylan Mulvaney.
Is there a live feed? (Not that I’ll watch it.)
Wow, they look like the Goldfinger girls from James Bond film.
Women have come a long way from the Pussy Galore days.
Suborbital flight. They will be up and down in less than 15 minutes.
Dog and pony show...
Launching on a rocket to get just above the altitude to be declared space and coming back down is BS. I equate that to a more expensive version of the balloon ride at Disney Springs where they tether the balloon and send you up for a few minutes before dragging you back down. It serves no purpose other than stroking egos that don’t need to be stroked. When they actually go to orbit and do some work instead of being “amazed” at the view...then they’ll get my respect.
Ha, agreed. Now we literally have t!ts in microgravity. That’s it. Katy Perry and Sanchez? Please.
Count on it - that'll be next, to even greater fanfare.
Lots of screaming and yelling plus a ton of overacting ?
SADLY, we live in the post feminine world of the exposed forehead. I think it is ugly. In the 60’ and 70’s nary a forehead in sight on our young lasses.
This is just the space tourism branch of Blue Origin.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn successfully launched their first payload into orbit in January. However, the first stage didn’t return as expected.
“Jeff has been put to shame. He has not achieved the success required to control the market.”
Did you know that over thirty percent of retail sales in the United States are on Amazon?
Just like when the shuttle was flying. It only had two pilots but everyone was called crew, just like flight attendants on airliners I guess.
Fish heads, fish heads
Roly-poly fish heads
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