Blue Origin is preparing to launch its 11th human spaceflight with a groundbreaking all-female crew.
The six women on board include Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez; pop star Katy Perry; civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen; CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King; film producer Kerianne Flynn; and entrepreneur and former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe.
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The crew will travel aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket from the company’s launch site, located 30 miles north of Van Horn, Texas.
The 11-minute suborbital flight will take them just beyond the Kármán line — the internationally recognized boundary of space at 62 miles above Earth — before returning.
While Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space in 1963, this flight marks the first time a full crew of women will travel to space together.
Before the mission, the group posed for Elle magazine in matching black power outfits. “We’re a crew!” they shouted in unison.
The shoot also marked a unique first: all the passengers will go to space with professional hair and makeup.
“Who would not get glam before the flight?” Sánchez said. Perry chimed in: “Space is going to finally be glam. Let me tell you something.
If I could take glam up with me, I would do that. We are going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut.”
(The Guardian)
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