Katy Perry, Gayle King blast off on star-studded all-female Blue Origin rocket launch on April 14

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March 27, 2025, 2:10 PM

• •Blue Origin's NS-31 mission will launch on April 14 with an all-female crew.
• •The crew includes Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist who will become the first Vietnamese woman to fly to space, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, pop superstar Katy Perry, film producer Kerianne Flynn, entrepreneur and former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and journalist and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez.

Blue Origin's NS-31 mission will take off atop Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and see an all-female crew fly to the edge of space and back. The crew includes Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist who will become the first Vietnamese woman to fly to space, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, pop superstar Katy Perry, film producer Kerianne Flynn, entrepreneur and former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and journalist and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez — partner of Blue Origin's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos.

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