Blue Origin Flies Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Other Customers to Space

Company’s New Shepard rocket launches celebrities and four others to the edge of space and back.

Jack Daleo

Monday, April 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM ET

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Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster heads for touchdown during the company’s NS-29 mission in February. [Courtesy: Blue Origin]

Key Takeaways:

An all-female civilian crew, including pop star Katy Perry and broadcast journalist Gayle King, successfully flew to the edge of space on Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-31 mission.
Organized by Lauren Sánchez (Jeff Bezos's fiancée), this flight was Blue Origin's 11th crewed mission and the first all-female spaceflight since 1963.
The approximately 10-minute suborbital flight also included entrepreneur Aisha Bowe, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and bioastronautics researcher Amanda Nguyễn, who became the first Vietnamese woman to fly to space.

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On Monday morning, an all-female group of civilians including pop star Katy Perry and award-winning broadcast journalist Gayle King flew to the edge of space and back.

Perry, King, and four others were selected as the crew of Blue Origin’s New Shepard Mission 31 (NS-31), which launched at 9:30 a.m. EDT from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas. NS-31 was Blue Origin’s 11th crewed mission and the first spaceflight to fly with only women since 1963, according to the company.