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.
Company’s New Shepard rocket launches celebrities and four others to the edge of space and back.
NS-31, set to launch in spring, will include pop star Katy Perry and CBS journalist Gayle King.
NS-30 mission sends crew of six—including four pilots, according to Blue Origin—to the edge of space and back.
New Shepard suborbital rocket simulates two minutes of lunar gravity, allowing the space agency and its partners to test out technologies.
It would mark the company’s ninth human spaceflight with its New Shepard rocket, which has flown 43 paying customers and guests to the edge of space.
The member of the famous ‘Mercury 13’ finally reached space at age 82.
The Scientific Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) has reserved all six seats on an upcoming flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
The launch is the first since September 2022 when an FAA investigation grounded the space tourism venture.
The space tourism firm could fly a cargo mission as soon as Monday as it seeks to get back into the commercial space race.
The agency had grounded Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket, which it uses to bring paying customers to the edge of the atmosphere.