Katy Perry and two more celebrities will join three other women in the next mission of Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, the company announced.
Katy Perry will go in space with a Blue Origin Instagram rocket
The 11th Flight with New Shepard Rocket crew is scheduled to be launched this spring, without being specified, according to NBC News.
The co-presenter of the show “CBS Mornings”Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez – Bezos’s fiancée – and Pop Katy Perry star will fly alongside the former NASA researcher, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn, forming an exclusive female crew.
show “CBS Mornings” announced in a funny way that King would attend the mission, using a font and a style presentation “Star Wars”. King, 70 years old, confessed that he initially refused the offer, but later changed.
“I am so afraid, but I am very excited. When they asked me, and that happened on Thanksgiving, I said immediately, “No, no, no.” Then I started to think better ”King said. “And I realized it was a unique opportunity.”
New Shepard completed the 10th crew flight on Tuesday near Van Horn, Texas.
The trips are short, lasting about 11 minutes. Passengers reach an altitude of just over 100 kilometers (62 miles), considered the limit between land and space.
The suborbital vehicle – which is autonomous and does not require a pilot – returns after the passengers have experienced a few minutes of imponderability and spectacular views. Three large parachutes slow down the descent to ensure a safe landing.
Among the personalities who flew with New Shepard are the founder of the company, Jeff Bezos, the actor of “Star Trek” William Shatner, the former great player of New York Giants, Michael Strahan, and Laura Shepard Churchley, Alan Shepard Astronaut.
New Shepard bears the name of Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space.
The first missile mission of the rocket took place in July 2021, on board Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, the aviator Pioneer Wally Funk and the Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen.
Blue Origin interrupted the missions in 2022, after a rocket propeller collapsed during a crew flight.
A ticket to travel with New Shepard costs amounts of hundreds of thousands of dollars, although the company does not display an official price on its website.
The Blue Origin ticket request mentions that future space travelers must pay a completely $ 150,000 repayable deposit to start the purchase process.
