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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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.
It is a stretch to call this a crew - they are more like passengers on an amusement ride.
At least on the shuttle, the other astronauts had missions to perform once in orbit. They were not just passengers on a joy ride.
It's meaningless, simply a reflection of our woke culture that needs to continually celebrate perceived accomplishments by fellow wokesters.
I was wondering how they were going to get it parked.
Discrimination anyone?
(No blondes.)
sure hope they aren’t driving.
In space there is no parallel parking.
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.
Merely a cunning stunt.
I never heard that opinion before!
I have tears running down my face! This is historic!
Hopfully they make it safely back home and not land upside down.
a bunch of women being launched into space on a rocket that looks like a penis. Interesting
Oh, boy. ISWYDT.
Sanchez living out her Barbarella fantasy?
“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...
just why?
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