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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I flew on an Airbus 321 on Saturday. Does that make me “crew”?

These days, what is the relevance of an “all” anything crew? These people are not “doing” anything while on board. They won’t even be on there long enough to use the bathroom facility.


41 posted on 04/14/2025 6:15:11 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is a stretch to call this a crew - they are more like passengers on an amusement ride.


42 posted on 04/14/2025 6:15:28 AM PDT by Godzilla (“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty” - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Resolute Conservative

At least on the shuttle, the other astronauts had missions to perform once in orbit. They were not just passengers on a joy ride.


43 posted on 04/14/2025 6:15:48 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Vermont Lt
These days, what is the relevance of an “all” anything crew?

It's meaningless, simply a reflection of our woke culture that needs to continually celebrate perceived accomplishments by fellow wokesters.

44 posted on 04/14/2025 6:16:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Godzilla
Notice the phallic shape of the space craft.


45 posted on 04/14/2025 6:17:07 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: kosciusko51
It’s a flight controlled by computers and mission control.

I was wondering how they were going to get it parked.

46 posted on 04/14/2025 6:18:27 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; BobL; Liz; GOPJ; PJ-Comix; Red Badger; SunkenCiv; Lazamataz

Discrimination anyone?

(No blondes.)


47 posted on 04/14/2025 6:20:10 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

sure hope they aren’t driving.


48 posted on 04/14/2025 6:20:53 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: HIDEK6

In space there is no parallel parking.


49 posted on 04/14/2025 6:21:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: who knows what evil?

For me, when I think of Katy Perry I think that she lives with Legalos the elf. Still think that’s the mental connection I’ll make after this event.


50 posted on 04/14/2025 6:22:34 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Merely a cunning stunt.


51 posted on 04/14/2025 6:22:39 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: central_va

I never heard that opinion before!


52 posted on 04/14/2025 6:24:07 AM PDT by 9YearLurker (\)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have tears running down my face! This is historic!


53 posted on 04/14/2025 6:24:51 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hopfully they make it safely back home and not land upside down.


54 posted on 04/14/2025 6:25:01 AM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

a bunch of women being launched into space on a rocket that looks like a penis. Interesting


55 posted on 04/14/2025 6:26:34 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Oh, boy. ISWYDT.


56 posted on 04/14/2025 6:27:36 AM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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To: 9YearLurker
I call it the era of the “Feminist” forehead. It is in your face foreheadism.
57 posted on 04/14/2025 6:27:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sanchez living out her Barbarella fantasy?


58 posted on 04/14/2025 6:28:10 AM PDT by 9YearLurker (\)
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To: bert

“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.”

I agree... I think it is all theater and they are not even going up at all. Watched them crawl out of the “capsule” last trip and it was all staged with the press and camera crews on a platform “inside” a facility waiting for them to open the door and come out. I don’t think that Capsule even went up at all...


59 posted on 04/14/2025 6:29:21 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

just why?


60 posted on 04/14/2025 6:29:43 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( so is it okay that I said that??? GO TRUMP GO!!!!)
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