Blue Origin, an area firm based by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is making historical past by sending an all-female crew on its subsequent spaceflight. The American spacecraft firm mentioned its eleventh human mission will embody Bezos’ fiancé and former journalist Lauren Sánchez, CBS host Gayle King and pop singer Katy Perry. Additionally on-board the the NS-31 mission can be NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics analysis scientist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn.
The mission is a part of Blue Origin’s New Shepard program, which has flown 52 individuals above the Kármán line, the internationally acknowledged boundary of area about 62 miles above Earth. In response to the Blue Origin web site, the astronauts will ascend towards area at greater than thrice the velocity of sound. As soon as they cross the road, the crew can unbuckle and float weightless, earlier than returning to Earth.
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The flight, which is able to launch someday this spring, will mark the primary all-female flight crew since Russian engineer Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963.
Blue Origin has taken many notable names up above the Earth earlier than, together with actor William Shatner, Good Morning America host and retired NFL participant Michael Strahan and Bezos himself.
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