KatieLauren Sanchez, Gail King, Amanda Nguien, Amanda Nguien, Kerian Flynn is officially the final passengers of the New Shepard rocket who today (14.04.2025) will travel at noon for the first time to space.
The 6 women, including Katie Perry, who had a dream of traveling through space, are expected to write history, participating in the first female mission outside our planet, which has been taking place for at least 50 years.
Head of the mission is Amazon’s founder’s companion, Jeff Bezos, Loren Sanchez It was even the one who carefully chosen in the crew of Blue Origin’s mission.
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Lauren Sanchez explained in a recent interview that she chose the faces that would participate based on their ability to inspire. One of her goals is to Strengthened the role of women for the journey of space exploration.
The “lucky” crew consists, in addition to the well -known singer, by presenter Gail King, former missile scientist Aisa Bohou, AMANDA NGUEN Political Rights activist, director Kerian Flynn.
Last Women’s Shipment was made in 1963when Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereskova traveled completely alone in space.
The 6 women will board today at 15.00 on the New Shepard rocket for a 11 -minute flight that will travel 100 kilometers above Earth, a destination called “space boundaries”. The launch will take place in West Texas as part of the NS-31 mission of the New Shepard program of Blue Origin.
It is worth noting that the 6 women will not be officially recognized as astronauts.
A total of more than 50 people have participated in Blue Origin flights from 2021. One of the flights was also involved in Star Trek’s actor, William Satnerwho automatically He became the oldest man he ever threw in space.
The impressive uniforms of the ‘astronauts’
Lauren Sanchez undertook the design of the costumes that the 6 women will wear. To do this, he even worked with the directors of the house Oscar de la Renta.
“Astronauts’ uniforms are usually designed for men and simply adapted to women,” he said earlier, stressing that this time he wanted an outfit showing the femininity and capacity of female crew.
For this important trip, Katie Perry uploaded photos to Instagram, which seems to be posing in her buddy, blue uniform.
In a recent interview with the Associated Press, she showed her enthusiasm to fly in space and revealed that she was in a period of psychological preparation, reading astrophysics and telling herself encouraging words about her decision.