Activist Amanda Nguyen, movie producer Kerianne Flynn and former Nasa scientist Aisha Bowe will also be on flight
Jeff Bezos announced on Thursday that an all-woman crew would helm the next flight into space of a Blue Origin rocket. The singer Katy Perry will join television host Gayle King, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, movie producer Kerianne Flynn, former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and Bezos’s fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, on a short hop from a west Texas launchpad this spring.
The 11th crewed mission of its New Shepard capsule, which the billionaire’s space company announced in a press release, will mark the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963 that no men have been aboard a human-crewed spaceflight leaving Earth, Blue Origin said.
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