Blue Origin lined up what would be the first female crew to be released into space since the launch of the Soviet Women’s Solo in 1963.
Pop singer Katy Perry and CBS Morning co-host Gail King are six women who have been announced as crews on the NS-31 mission for the Suborbital New Shepherd Rocket Set, due out this spring.
Others to fly include Aisha Bow, Amanda Nuguen, Kerian Flynn and Lauren Sanchez.
Sánchez, who works with Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin, is a former entertainment TV journalist. She organized the crew. Bow is a former NASA rocket scientist, and Nguyen A Bioastronautics Research Scientist and Flynn have built their fashion careers and have produced films such as “This Changes Everything.”
The New Shepard flight set up passengers from the West Texas facility in Blue Origin, travelling over the Kalman line on a short ride of 10-12 minutes, reaching a highlands that reached approximately 62 miles tall and internationally recognized highlands.
Passengers experience several minutes of weightlessness and can see the curvature of the Earth before the capsule returns to a parachute-assisted landing.
The new Shepherd booster and capsule have flew 30 times so far, with 10 missions occupying 52 humans since 2021, including four flying twice.
Bezos was one of the first in 2021, but other flights featured flights like NFL Hall of Fame Star Trek William Shatner, the daughter of Alan Shepherd, the first American named after the Rocket, and co-hosts of “Good Morning America” Michael Strahan and Laura Shepherd Churchley.
Central Florida couple Mark and Sharon Haggle were among the four who were two riders who traveled in both 2022 and this November. Another Central Floridian on the trip was Brevard County billionaire Steve Young.
The last time the spaceflight was on board was a solo flight by Soviet astronaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman in space on the Vostok 6 mission on June 16, 1963.
Blue Origin knocked out the finest with his new Shepherd Rocket, sending the tallest (6 feet 5 inches Strahan), the oldest (90-year-old Edd Wight Jr.) and the youngest (18-year-old Oliver Daymen) into space.
Space tourism flights are just part of Bezos’ company’s business. This first flew a much larger left new Glen Rocket from Cape Canaveral this January. Also on the Blue Origin plates are plans for the Commercial Space Station and Blue Moon Luner Lander.
