Katy Perry prepares to blast off into space in first ALL-FEMALE space mission in more than 60 years

Singer Katy Perry is to head off into space on a Blue Origin rocket on Monday and will be part of the first all-female mission in 62 years that will be blasting off from Texas

Katy Perry pictured in a space suit
Katy Perry is to head off on a Blue Origin rocket(Image: INSTAGRAM)

Katy Perry ponders life on Earth as she prepares to leave it, lifting off on the Blue Origin rocket with five other women on the first all-female space mission in 62 years. The pop star, 40, who had a hit in 2014 with This Is How We Do, is in Texas, counting down to 2.30pm our time on Monday and blast-off in the reusable, self-driving rocket.

She will be on the 11-minute flight with author Lauren Sanchez, 55, TV host Gayle King, 70, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, 33, rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, 38, and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn, 57.

The all-female crew pictured
It will be an all-female crew that will blast off(Image: INSTAGRAM)

It is the first all-female crew since Russian engineer Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963. They will reach 62 miles above Earth, technically entering space as the capsule crosses the Karman line, the boundary of space.

Jeff Bezos pictured
It is part of billionaire Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard space programme(Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images)

They will experience about four minutes of weightlessness, time to float around and take in the views of Earth from the large windows before the capsule descends back to Earth using three parachutes.

The Blue Rocket is part of billionaire Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard space programme. So were the women’s smart new space suits delivered by Amazon?

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