American singer and songwriter Katy Perry is preparing for an upcoming all-women flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
The ‘Roar’ hitmaker will be joined by Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, CBS presenter Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
Blue Origin marks the space trip as the first all-women spaceflight since the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova’s solo mission in 1963.
While no specific launch date has been announced, Blue Origin confirmed it is scheduled for this spring.
Perry also has an upcoming tour, The Lifetimes Tour, which is set to run from April 23 to November 11. This spaceflight is expected to take place before the tour begins.
“If you had told me I’d be part of the first all-female crew in space, I would have believed you. Nothing was beyond my imagination as a child,” Perry said in a statement cited by Newsweek.
