Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ house firm Blue Origin will likely be making historical past by sending an all-female crew on its subsequent spaceflight this spring. The American spacecraft firm’s eleventh human mission will embody CBS host Gayle King, pop singer Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancé and former journalist Lauren Sánchez. NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics analysis scientist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn will even be on-board mission NS-31.
In accordance with the Blue Origin web site, the astronauts will ascend towards house at greater than 3 times the pace of sound. As soon as they cross the road, the crew can unbuckle and float weightless, earlier than returning to Earth.
The mission is a part of Blue Origin’s New Shepard program, which has flown 52 folks above the Kármán line, the internationally acknowledged boundary of house about 62 miles above Earth.
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The flight, which is able to launch someday this spring, will mark the primary all-female flight crew since Russian engineer Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963.
Blue Origin has taken many notable names up above the Earth earlier than, together with actor William Shatner, Good Morning America host and retired NFL participant Michael Strahan and Bezos himself.
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