Pop sensation Katy Perry is ready for her departure into space, Mirror reports. The 40-year-old recording artist will soar skyward from Texas aboard a Blue Origin vessel alongside five accomplished women, constituting the first exclusively female crew to venture beyond Earth's atmosphere in over six decades. According to Mirror, the autonomous, recyclable spacecraft is scheduled for departure at 2:30 p.m. local time on Monday.
Her companions include author Lauren Sanchez, 55, who is also currently engaged to billionaire Jeff Bezos; television personality Gayle King, 70; civil rights champion Amanda Nguyen, 33; aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, 38; and cinema director Kerianne Flynn, 57, as detailed by the publication.
Katy Perry goes to Space today. pic.twitter.com/St0n9A6RYl
— Pop Base (@PopBase) April 14, 2025
This momentous expedition represents the first women-only space crew since Soviet engineer Valentina Tereshkova conducted her unaccompanied journey in 1963, Mirror explains. The assemblage will ascend 62 miles above our planet's surface, formally entering space when their vessel traverses the Karman boundary, which serves as the recognized frontier between Earth's atmospheric envelope and cosmic territory.
Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos' fiance Lauren Sanchez and an all-female crew are headed to space on the Blue Origin rocket aka the Sexualized Spaceship - for 11 minutes.
Dubbed the first all-female flight to space - but that actually already happened on June 16, 1963 by Russia's… pic.twitter.com/usIdifFe4G
— Denn Dunham (@DennD68) April 13, 2025
The adventurers will undergo approximately four minutes of zero gravity conditions. This interval will enable them to float freely and observe terrestrial vistas through the expansive windows before their capsule commences its descent, deploying three parachutes to facilitate a secure return to Earth.
The Blue Origin rocket constitutes a fundamental element of billionaire Jeff Bezos' New Shepard space initiative. This program focuses on advancing commercial space travel through innovative, reusable rocket technology.
