Pop star Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos’s fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, and Gayle King news presenter will be among the crew of six people for the next Blue Origin flight, marking what Bezos’ Aerospace firm said it would be the first crew composed exclusively for women in traveling to space in decades.
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Blue Origin announced on Thursday a crew of six people for the last flight of its New Shepard program: Perry, Sánchez, King, the former Nasa Sasa Bowe scientist, the scientist research scientist Amanda Nguyen and the film producer Kerianne Flynn.
The crew will launch this spring for a 11 -minute flight just above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized limit between the atmosphere of the earth and the space, about 62 miles on the surface of the earth, the company said.
Blue Origin said in a statement that “each person on board is a crew member” and that “there are no pilots”, since the New Shepard spacecraft is completely autonomous.
The last space flight with a crew composed exclusively of women occurred on June 16, 1963, according to NASA, when the Soviet Union launched Valentina Tereshkova alone to space for a three -day flight.
Who else has Bezos sent to space?
Blue Origin has sent some celebrities and other payment clients to space in more than 10 flightsted flights since 2021, including Bezos, who flew on the first Mission of New Shepard in July 2021. Star Trek actor, William Shatner, became the oldest person in traveling to space when he joined the New Shephard crew in October 2021 at 90 years.
How much does a ticket to space cost?
Most passengers of the New Shepard rocket pay for their seat, while outstanding figures, like Shatner, fly for free. Blue Origin requires possible passengers to fill a form and pay a reimbursable deposit of $ 150,000, although the exact price of the ticket is not known, since the first reports indicated that a seat would cost at least 200,000 dollars. The first ticket sold was auctioned anonymous for 28 million dollars in 2021.
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Blue Origin, De Bezos, has taken more than two dozen people to space, while the company competes with Spacex by Elon Musk and Virgin Galactic by Richead Branson to expand access to space tourism. The New Shepard rocket was investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration for a failed launch in September 2022. FAA closed its investigation in 2023 and ruled that Blue Origin should take corrective measures in the rocket, including the redesign of its motor and nozzle components. Blue Origin has launched New Shepard 19 times without crew, including previous missions to send science and “useful research loads” to collect data and carry out experiments in space, in addition to sending thousands of postcards from the non -profit organization Club for the Future.
This article was originally published by Forbes Us.
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