Blue Origin successfully makes the first suborbital flight with a women’s crew, including Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend

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April 14, 2025April 14, 2025By Mario Vásquez
Blue Origin successfully makes the first suborbital flight with a women’s crew, including Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend

Perry, Sánchez and four other women They took off this Monday, April 14 from the west of the state of Texas at 8.30 am, amounted to more than 100 kilometers of altitude and returned to Earth about 10 minutes later in the New Shepard rocket, of the Aerospace Company owned by Bezos.

The rocket, completely automated, took off vertically and the capsule separated during the flight, before returning to the ground, stopped by parachute and a retropropulsor.

This is the first space flight composed of women from the historic solo journey of the Cosmonauta and Soviet engineer Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963.

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In addition to the American singer and Sánchez, the program’s co -presenter participated in the flight CBS Mornings Gayle King, research scientist Amanda Nguyen, the ex -specialist in Nasa Aisha Bowe rockets and the film producer Kerianne Flynn.

This was the eleventh suborbital flight that Blue Origin, a company that since 2021 offers space tourism trips in its New Shepard rocket. The prices of these trips are not public.

“To inspire Daisy”

In a recent interview with the magazine EllePerry explained that he undertook the adventure to inspire his daughter Daisy to “never put limits to his dreams.”

During the trip, the six passengers exceeded the line of karm, which is located 100 kilometers above sea level and marks the border with space, according to an international convention.

Blue Origin has taken 52 people to the suborbital space in 10 manned missions.

Among the celebrities who in the past traveled aboard the New Shepard are listed William Shatner, legendary actor of the science fiction saga Star Trekand Jeff Bezos himself, who participated in the inaugural flight with crew.

Bezos competes with the company Virgin Galactic, which also offers suborbital flights. However, Blue Origin has the ambition to venture into the orbital flight market and compete with Spacex, of the Elon businessman Musk.

In January, Blue Origin successfully completed its first unmanned orbital flight, using a much more powerful pitcher, called New Glenn.

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