Pop singer Katy Perry and presenter Lauren Sánchezcommitted to billionaire Jeff Bezos, on Monday completed the first suborbital flight with an exclusively female crew, to board a Blue Origin rocket.
Perry, Sánchez and four other women took off from the west of the state of Texas at 08:30 local (13:30 GMT), ascended more than 100 kilometers of altitude and returned to the ground about ten minutes later in the New Shepard rocket of the aerospace company, owned by Bezos.
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Pop singer Katy Perry and journalist Lauren Sánchez, committed to billionaire Jeff Bezos, will integrate a crew composed exclusively of women on the next Blue Origin suborbital flight, announced the aerospace company this Thursday. For more information on the topic, visit: https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/internaciones/katy-perry-lauren-sánchez-tripulation-femenina-blue-origin-viajara-espacio-20250227-748243.html Follow us on our social networks to keep you informed! Twitter: https://twitter.com/eleconomista Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eleconomista.mx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eleconomistamx LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/el-economista/ #Eleconomista #EetV 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. 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 research scientist Amanda Nguyen, the ex -specialist in rockets of the NASA Aisha Bowe and the film producer Kerianne Flynn.
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Amazon, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, wants to offer very high -speed Internet access to people, companies and government agencies anywhere in the world 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.
In a recent interview with Elle magazine, Perry 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 to 100 km above sea level and marks the border with space, according to an international convention.
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. 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 Shatner William, legendary actor of the Star Trek science fiction sagaand 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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