WASHINGTON: Pop star Katy Perry is set to “ shoot across the sky ” this spring when she lifts off as part of a six- member, each- womanish crew on Blue Origin’s coming space flight, the company blazoned Thursday.
As if answering the call of her megahit song “ ET, ” Perry will embark on a star- speckled trip alongside intelligencer Lauren Sanchez, who’s Blue Origin proprietor Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, and CBS Morningsco-host Gayle King.
Blue Origin began launching fat excursionists and celebrities into space in 2021 aboard its New Shepard rocket, named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space.
To date, the company has flown 52 people to suborbital space across 10 crewed operations.
New Shepard operations launch from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas.
Breakouts generally last just 10 or 11 twinkles from lift- off to wharf, with passengers passing a many twinkles of microgravity as their capsule soars beyond the Karman line – the internationally recognised boundary of space, 100 kilometres above ocean position.
The rocket supporter makes an upright perpendicular wharf, while the capsule deploys parachutes for a gentle touchdown in the Texas desert.
Also on board will be exploration scientist Amanda Nguyen, former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and film patron Kerianne Flynn.
once luminaries aboard New Shepard include Star Trek legend William Shatner, as well as Bezos himself, who flew on the initial crewed flight.
Ticket prices remain undisclosed, though celebrities are frequently given complimentary seats.
This charge will mark the first each- womanish spaceflight crew since Valentina Tereshkova’s major solo flight in 1963.
Like Elon Musk – the only person fat than him – Jeff Bezos has an enduring passion for space.
But while Musk dreams of colonising Mars, Bezos envisions shifting heavy assiduity off- earth onto floating space platforms to save Earth, “ humanity’s blue origin. ”
In January, the company successfully launched its giant New Glenn rocket for the first time – a pivotal step in its expansion into the economic marketable launch sector.
Blue Origin formerly holds a Nasa contract to make a lunar lander for one of the forthcoming Artemis operations, which will return Americans to the Moon.
New Glenn will also support the deployment of Project Kuiper, a satellite internet constellation designed to compete Musk’s Starlink.
