Is Katy Perry going to space?
By TOI Desk Report
April 14, 2025
Update on : April 14, 2025
American pop singer Katy Perry is among six female celebrities who are heading to reach the edge of space in the most recent high-profile launch.
Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has developed a capsule and rocket.
The five others include Kerianne Flynn, a movie producer; Gayle King, co-host of “CBS Mornings”; Lauren Sánchez, a former journalist and Bezos’ fiancée; Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist; and Amanda Nguyen, a bioastronautics research scientist.
The all-female crew is scheduled to take off from the launch pad of Blue Origin in Van Horn, Texas around 9:30am on Monday.
The trip to space has been described as a historic event after Valentina Tereshkova of the former Soviet Union became the first woman in space in 1963. Tereshkova launched into orbit on a solo mission that lasted about three days
Katy Perry and her fellow crew members were scheduled to lift off on New Shepard rocket of Blue Origin On Monday’s flight.
The journey will last approximately 10 minutes. The voyage will take the six passengers just above the Kármán line. At an altitude of 62 miles, it is widely accepted as the edge of space.
The crew will gain experience a few minutes of lightness before descending under parachutes and landing in the Texas desert.
Born on October 25, 1984, in Santa Barbara, California, Perry gained fame for a string of anthemic and regularly suggestive sexually hit songs, as well as for a playfully cartoonish sense of style.
Her popular singles include “I Kissed a Girl,” “Last Friday Night,” “Roar,” and “Rise.”