Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Space Company Blue Origin will make history by sending a All-female crew In the next spaceflight this spring. The 11th mission of the American Spacecraft Company will include CBS host Gayle King, pop singer Katy Perry and Bezos' fiancé and former journalist Lauren Sánchez. Rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen and film manufacturer Kerianne Flynn will be on-board mission NS-31.
According to Blue Origin websiteAstronauts climb toward space more than three times the sound speed. Once they pass the line, the crew can be unbuckle and floating weightless, before returning to Earth.
The mission is part of the new Shepard program of the Blue Origin, which flew 52 people above the Kármán line, recognized by the international space border nearly 62 miles above the ground.
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The flight, which will be launched once this spring, has marked the first all-female flight crew since the solo spaceflight of Russian engineer Valentina Tereshkova in 1963.
The blue source has taken many well -known names above the world before, including the actor William ShatnerGood morning America host and retired NFL player Michael Strahan and Bezos itself.
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