Blue Origin Rocket Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez closes with all-women celebrity crew

Blue Origin show, first row, seated, from left, Lauren Sanchez and Karian Flynz and this image provided by standing back from the left: Amanda Guayen, Katy Perry, Gayle King and Aisha Boway in West Texas. , Photo Credit: AP

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin on Monday (April 14, 2025) launched her fiancé Lauren Sanchez in space with a women’s celebrity crew, including Katy Perry and Gayle King.

This was the latest wave in space tourism, where more rich and famous-or well-known and well-connected by traditional astronauts can enter the zero-gurutavatavashan region by traditional astronauts.

The new Shepard rocket exploded on a quick up-a-down trip from West Texas. The space fringe raised some 65 miles (105 km), promising some precious minutes.

A helicopter pilot and former TV journalist Sanchez invited others for a 10-minute, a completely automated flight, packing on star power with singer-singer Perry and co-hoping king of “CBS Mornings”.

Also filmmaker Karian Flynn was to share the ride; NASA Bowe, a former NASA engineer, who launched his own companies to promote science education; And Amanda Guyen, a scientist who studied the planets around other stars and now advocates people left with sexual violence.

Blue Origin refused to say how much the cost of the flight is or who paid. The journey arrives two months before marrying Sanchez and Bezos in Venice.

It was the 11th human spaceflight for the company based in the state of Washington, which was established by Bezos in 2000 after making luck with Amazon. Bezos stuck for the first space tourist flight of Blue Origin in 2021 and with a pad with the latest crew.

Celebrity launch was the country’s first spaceflight where women filled each seat. The only one other women’s team in 64 years of human spaceflight returned in 1963. When the Soviet cosmonott Valentina Tereskova launched herself, who became the first woman in space. Tereskova spent three days from the planet.

Even after the latest launch, women represent 15% of more than 700 people who have traveled in space. Sanchhez said that he chose to deliberately to launch women with her, eager to motivate each young and old man to have big dreams, and even commissioned special flight suits.

Perry told Associated Press last week, “This is an important moment for the future of commercial space trip and for humanity in general and for all women.”

The launch brought VIP to West Texas, which included Opra Winfrey and several women, which had earlier swept away on private flights.

This is not the first blue origin launch with Marki names.

“Star Trek” actor William Shatter caught a lift in space with Blue Origin in 2021 immediately after Bezos’s inaugural visit. He was followed by former New York veteran defensive end and TV host Michael Sthan and Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Mercury Astronaut Alan Shepard, for whom the rocket is named. Two aviation pioneers that missed into space when they were small – Valley Funk and Ed Dwite – also got away at 82 and 90 years of age respectively.

Most passengers of Blue Origin – Counting of 58 latest launch – have been business or science types, TV hosts or youtubers. Ticket prices have not been revealed.

The Russian Space Agency has also launched its own stake of space tourists, starting with a Financer of California in 2001. Two decades later, a Russian actress filmed riders at the international space station.

The spacex of Elon Musk also sells multi-day trips to private customers. To fly the first customer of SpaceX, billionaire tech entrepreneur Jred Isaqman has already launched twice and performed the first private spacewalk. Now he is ready to become the next Administrator of NASA when he is confirmed by the Senate.

Chinese -born bitcoin investor Chun Wang returned from the first spaceflight to take people to the north and south poles. Wang picked up the entire SpaceX tab for his and three polar explorers for an unknown amount.

Wang said last week through X, “In this exciting new era of commercial spaceflight, the dream of becoming an astronaut is no longer limited to a select.”