Blue Origin will launch its eleventh crewed flight on April 14, with pop star Katy Perry strapping into the New Shepard space capsule alongside five other passengers, all of them women. The mission, NS-31, will be the first all-female crew since the Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space during a solo flight in 1963.

Katy Perry blasted off into space aboard Blue Origin’s latest flight, marking the first all-female space crew in over sixty years. Joining her on this high-profile mission were Lauren Sánchez, fiancée of Amazon founder and Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos,