The totally feminine Blue Origin crew, which includes pop star Katy Perry, was launched to space on Monday morning.
It marks the first space flight of women since 1963, according to the company.
The window of the last Rocket Shepard launch opened Monday morning at 8:30 am CDT, according to Blue Origin.
“I have dreamed of going to space for 15 years and tomorrow that dream comes true,” Perry said on social networks on Sunday.
The eleventh new Shepard Flight crew, which is officially called NS-31, took off from the company’s launch site in western Texas.
A Handout Photo Published on April 14, 2025, ON THE X ACCOUND OF BLUE ORIGIN, Shows (CLOCKWISE FROM L) US Entrepreneur Lauren Sanchez, Former Nasa Scientist Amanda Nguyen, Singer Katy Perry, TV Present Gayle King, Former Nasa Scientist Aisha Bowe and Film Producer Kerianne Flynn Posing in Their Space Suits Ahead of the All-Woman Sub-Aorbital Mission Aboard The New Shepard Rocket.
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Together with Perry, the crew includes the fiancee of the journalist of the owner of Blue Origin Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez, who is also a helicopter pilot.
The journalist Gayle King, the former scientist of the Nasa Aisha Bowe rockets, the scientist and activist of the Civil Rights of Bioastrronautics Amanda Nguyen and the filmmaker Kerianne Flynn complete the flight crew, according to Blue Origin.
The flight will last only about 11 minutes and reach a height of approximately 60 miles on the earth. The Kárman line, considered the limit between the atmosphere of the earth and the outer space, is 62 miles, so Perry and its fellow crew members will not be launched in orbit.
The most recent totally feminine space flight was the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova Space Flight in 1963, said Blue Origin.
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ABC News Katie Kendland contributes to this report.
