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Katy Perry is going to space with an all-female celebrity crew.
Jeff Bezos' aerospace company, Blue Origin, announced the news in February. The company has flown passengers on short space journeys since 2021.
Newsweek reached out to Perry's representative via email for comment on Monday.
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Who Is Going to Space With Katy Perry?
Perry, Bezos' fiancée author Lauren Sánchez, TV host Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist and engineer Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn will all be aboard the historic rocket. The last all-female flight took place in 1963.
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When Does Katy Perry Go to Space?
Perry and the five other women will be taking to the skies on Monday, April 14 at 9:30 a.m. ET at Blue Origin's West Texas launch site in the New Shepard rocket.
This will be New Shepard's 11th human spaceflight and the 31st in its history.
One day before the launch, the "E.T." singer, 40, gave her 204 million Instagram followers and 8.5 million TikTok followers a tour of the capsule that the NS-31 crew had "been training in for the last few days."
"Here I am," she said in the video, pointing to her place on the spacecraft. "Seat number two."
Perry added that she's going to sing on the journey. "I'm gonna sing a little bit. I gotta sing in space," she said.
How Long Is Katy Perry Going to Space?
The journey is expected to last approximately 10 minutes, per The Associated Press. For several of those minutes, the passengers will experience weightlessness, as they ascend 62 miles into the sky, CNN reported.
The spacecraft does not require pilots or manual operation, as it is fully autonomous.
Why Is Katy Perry Going to Space?
In the caption of her social media capsule tour, Perry explained that she's "dreamt of going to space for 15 years."
In a separate Instagram and TikTok video, the California native said she got "confirmations from the heavens" that she made the right decision.
In a recent interview with The Associated Press, the pop star further elaborated on the mission.
"I am talking to myself every day and going, 'You're brave, you're bold, you are doing this for the next generation to inspire so many different people' but especially young girls to go, 'I'll go to space in the future,'" she said. "No limitations."
Perry added that she's "really excited about the engineering of it all" and "what it takes to accomplish this type of thing."
"Using that feminine divine that I was born with and definitely unlocked when I had my daughter even more. It leveled up for sure," she continued. "Being a mother just makes you level up with that type of power."
The 13-time Grammy nominee welcomed her daughter, Daisy Dove, with actor Orlando Bloom in August 2020.
"I am feeling so grateful and grounded and honored to be invited and included with this incredible group of women," she said.
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