Pop singer Katy Perry and presenter Lauren Sánchez, committed to billionaire Jeff Bezos, completed this April 14 the first suborbital flight with an exclusively feminine crew, to board a Blue Origin rocket.
Perry, Sánchez and four other women took off from the west of the state of Texas at 07:00 hours in central Mexico, amounted to more than 100 kilometers of altitude and returned to the earth about ten minutes later in the New Shepard rocket of the aerospace company, owned by Bezos.
The completely automated rocket took off vertically and the capsule separated during the flight, before returning to the ground stopped by a parachute and a retropropulsor.
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This is the first space flight composed exclusively of women, from the historic solo journey of Cosmonauta and Soviet engineer Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963.
In addition to the American singer and Sánchez, the CBS Mornings Gayle King program, the scientist research scientist Amanda Nguyen, the ex -specialist in Nasa Aisha Bowe and the film producer Kerianne Flynn participated in the flight.
It is the eleventh suborbital flight that Blue Origin performs, which since 2021 offers space tourism trips in its New Shepard rocket. The prices of these trips are not public
“To inspire Daisy”: Katy Perry
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 Karman line that is located 100 km above sea level and marks the border with space, according to an international convention.
To date, 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 William Shatner, legendary actor of the science fiction saga Star Trekand Jeff Bezos himself, who was on the inaugural flight with crew.
Bezos competes with the company Virgin Galactic, which also offers suborbital flights. But Blue Origin also has the ambition to go further in the flight market in orbit and compete with Space X, of the richest man in the world Elon Musk.
In January, he successfully completed his first unmanned orbital flight, using a much more powerful pitcher called New Glenn.
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