Blue Origin launches all-female crew featuring Katy Perry

April 14, 2025, 10:20 am

Two stories cover a historic Blue Origin flight that launched an all-female crew, headlined by pop star Katy Perry alongside a group of accomplished professionals ranging from former NASA scientists to prominent journalists. The coverage highlights the symbolic significance of the flight in promoting diversity and innovation in commercial space travel, as well as marking a notable milestone in the company’s broader mission to advance accessible space exploration.

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cnet.com / ICYMI: Watch Katy Perry, Gayle King Successfully Land on Blue Origin Space Flight

Music icon Katy Perry and an all-woman crew launched on a Blue Origin New Shepard spacecraft on April 14, as Oprah Winfrey watched from the ground.

cnet.com / Watch Blue Origin Successfully Land Its First All-Female Star-Studded Spaceflight video

Watch Blue Origin's historic NS-31 rocket launch. Its all-female crew included Gayle King, Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez.

techcrunch.com / Blue Origin’s all-female crew, including Katy Perry, successfully launched

Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, successfully launched its New Shepard rocket at around 9:30 a.m. ET on Monday, as it seeks to challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the space tourism industry. What stands out most about this mission is that it featured the first all-female space crew since...

theverge.com / Katy Perry launched into space with Blue Origin

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has launched pop singer / songwriter Katy Perry into space, along with five other women: former NASA scientists Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen, journalist Gayle King, journalist and Bezos fiancée Lauren Sánchez, and film producer Kerianne Flynn. Their flight, called NS-31,...

cbc.ca / All-female crew, including singer Katy Perry, blast off on Blue Origin rocket

Pop star Katy Perry and journalists Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez — who is also billionaire Jeff Bezos's fiancée — blasted off into space on a Blue Origin rocket on Monday.

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