Katy Perry to sing in space

‘I’ve got to sing in space!’ says Katy Perry ahead of all-female spaceflight Blue origin, Jeff Bezos, Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon, Elon Musk, Olivia Munn, Texas, commercial spaceflight, entertainment The all women crew of New Shepard’s 11th human flight, NS-31.

Six women, including pop star Katty Perry is set to blast off on April 14 on a self-driving private rocket by Blue Origin, the company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, for a joyride to space that is expected to last all of 11 minutes.

“I think I’m gonna sing, I’ve got to sing in space!” Perry said in a new post on Instagram. Perry (40) will be joined by broadcast journalist Gayle King (70) Lauren Sanchez (55) who is also Bezos’ fiancee, Aisha Bowe (38), a former NASA rocket scientist, Amanda Nguyen (33), a bioastronautics research scientist; and Kerianne Flynn, a movie producer. It will be the 11th human flight for Blue Origin.

The mission known as NS-31 on a reusable rocket is set to lift off from Van Horn in Texas and will feature the first all-female crewed spaceflight in 60 years. The first woman to travel in space was Soviet-era cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, in a 1963 solo mission when she orbited Earth as part of the Vostok 6 mission that lasted just under three days.

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