Blue Origin’s all-female crew, including Katy Perry and Lauren…

April 13, 2025

Pop-star Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Gail King are ready to take off in a glammed-up historic space all-female tourism flight scheduled for Monday morning.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard 31 is set for launch starting at 9:30 a.m. from the company’s west Texas base, with the three celebs are set to be joined by crew mates Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe and Kerianne Flynn.

Blue Origin’s founder is ex Amazon boss Jeff Bezos — and he’s sending his fiancée Sanchez to space as part of the mission.

Blue Origin’s NS31 mission will launch with Lauren Sanchez (left-clockwise) Amanda Nguyen, Katy Perry, Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn. Katy Perry/Instagram
Pop-star Katy Perry has said she’s excited for the chance to see space, even for just a few minutes. Katy Perry/Instagram

The voyage, which is expected to fly just above the boundary of space and last around 11 minutes, will mark the first all-female space trip since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova‘s solo flight in 1963.

The crew vowed to look their best during the short space flight, with some preparing to make sure their makeup, eyelashes and hairdos survive the intense force needed to leave the Earth, the weightlessness of pace, and the return trip home.

“Space is going to finally be glam,” Perry previously told Elle. “If I could take glam up with me, I would do that. We are going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut.”

The projected orbit of the mission will see the women soar about 62 miles above the planet, just above the Karman Line, which is internationally recognized as the point where Earth ends and outer space begins.

At about two minutes after liftoff, the New Shepard booster is set to separate from the crew capsule and return in a controlled touchdown at the Blue Origin pad about 2 miles north of the launch site.

The women are set to return 10 to 11 minutes later in a parachute landing in the Texas desert.

Lauren Sanchez walks around her fiancé’s Blue Origin’s base in her spacesuit. Lauren Sanchez/Instagram
The NS31 insignia is placed on all the women’s suits, with a reference to each of their careers. Blue Origin

All six crewmates arrived at the base on Saturday for the mission prep, which also included a photo-op of the women in form-fitting Blue Origin’s jumpsuits at the rocket bridge site.

Like with previous space tourism missions, Blue Origins designed a special insignia to add to the women’s space suits featuring all their names and a wink to each of their works and ambitions.

Next to Perry’s name is the image of a firework, a reference to her hit 2011 song, with a fly near Sanchez’s name as a nod to her children’s book, “The Fly Who Flew to Space.”

The NS31 crew share a laugh while preparing for Monday’s trip. Lauren Sanchez/Instagram
The New Shepard rocket is set to take the women just above the space boundary 62 miles above the Earth. REUTERS

King has a microphone to symbolize her work on CBS News, Nguyen has an icon of the scales of justice for her civil rights advocacy, Flynn has a film reel for her career as a film producer and Bowe has a target star to symbolize her passion for STEM.

Along with taking in the sights, the women have also partnered with various universities and science groups to carry out a few experiments during their trip to space.

The women’s trip will mark the New Shepard‘s 11th human flight.

Blue Origin's NS31 mission will launch with, left-clockwise, Lauren Sanchez, Amanda Nguyen, Katy Perry, Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn.
Blue Origin’s NS31 mission will launch with Lauren Sanchez (left-clockwise) Amanda Nguyen, Katy Perry, Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn. Katy Perry/Instagram
Pop-star Katy Perry has said she's excited for the chance to see space, even for just a few minutes.
Pop-star Katy Perry has said she’s excited for the chance to see space, even for just a few minutes. Katy Perry/Instagram
Lauren Sanchez walks around her fiancé's Blue Origin's base in her spacesuit.
Lauren Sanchez walks around her fiancé’s Blue Origin’s base in her spacesuit. Lauren Sanchez/Instagram
The NS31 insignia is placed on all the women's suits, with a reference to each of their careers.
The NS31 insignia is placed on all the women’s suits, with a reference to each of their careers. Blue Origin
The NS31 crew share a laugh while preparing for Monday's trip.
The NS31 crew share a laugh while preparing for Monday’s trip. Lauren Sanchez/Instagram
The New Shepard rocket is set to take the women just above the space boundary 62 miles above the Earth.
The New Shepard rocket is set to take the women just above the space boundary 62 miles above the Earth. REUTERS

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