Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has launched pop singer / songwriter Katy Perry into area, together with 5 different girls: former NASA scientists Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguy?n, journalist Gayle King, journalist and Bezos fiancée Lauren Sánchez, and movie producer Kerianne Flynn. Their flight, known as NS-31, launched aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket as its launch window opened at 8:30AM CT / 9:30AM ET. It’s being livestreamed each on YouTube and Blue Origin’s web site.
Previous New Shepard flights have taken passengers simply to the sting of area, the place they’re allowed to unbuckle and roam freely for a couple of minutes contained in the capsule earlier than buckling up once more for re-entry. The capsule then deploys a parachute and touches again down in west Texas. In the course of the flight, the New Shepard rocket itself returns to its touchdown pad.
In a video posted to Instagram earlier than the flight, Perry stated she plans to make a “particular reveal coming to you from zero gravity.” She posted an earlier video touring the capsule that she and the others will probably be aboard, and stated she’s going to in all probability sing in area.
That is Blue Origin’s thirty first New Shepard launch. The rocket’s final flight was in February, and former vacationers aboard New Shepard flights embrace William Shatner, and 90-year-old Ed Dwight, who was America’s first astronaut candidate, however who by no means made it to area.
