Summary

  • Pop star Katy Perry will join Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez and CBS host Gayle King on a flight to space on the New Shepard rocket this coming spring.
  • The mission, the 11th by Blue Origin, will take the four celebrities along with scientists and a former NASA rocket scientist to the edge of space.
  • Bowe, Nguyen and Flynn will be the mission’s honorary guests, with the flight intended to raise funds for non-profit organisations that help paediatric and women’s health, and the Earth Fund.
  • Sánchez first revealed plans for an all-female Blue Origin mission in 2023, but did not announce specific plans for the flight at the time.
  • Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket has taken 52 people to space since 2021, including William Shatner and Bezos himself.

By Emma Roth

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