An all-female crew will rocket to the edge of space on board the next Blue Origin flight, the company announced Thursday.

Pop star Katy Perry and television host Gayle King are among the group of six women who will take the suborbital flight this spring, along with former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, filmmaker Kerianne Flynn, sexual violence survivor advocate Amanda Nguyen and Lauren Sanchez, who is best known as the fiancée of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos but who is also a helicopter pilot and journalist.

What You Need To Know

  • An all-female crew will rocket to the edge of space on board the next Blue Origin flight

  • Pop star Katy Perry and television host Gayle King are among the group of six women who will take the suborbital flight this spring

  • Blue Origin has been taking paying passengers to the edge of space on its New Shepard spacecraft since 2021, but this spring’s flight will be the first to only carry women

  • The women will be part of the 11th human flight for Blue Origin’s New Shepard program

Blue Origin has been taking paying passengers to the edge of space on its New Shepard spacecraft since 2021, but this spring’s flight will be the first to carry only women. The civilian astronauts receive two days of training before their flight, which rockets them at three times the speed of sound 62 miles above the Earth.

The highlight of the 10-minute trip is weightlessness upon reaching maximum altitude — and a killer view. As they float around the cabin, passengers are able to look out of giant windows to see the planet from above. The capsule then floats to the ground with a system of parachutes.

The women will be part of the 11th human flight for Blue Origin’s New Shepard program. It is the company’s 31t flight overall. So far, 52 people have flown on board Blue Origin spacecraft to above the Karman line, known as the boundary of space.