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[Katy Perry set for space with all-women
crew on Blue Origin rocket.
Pop star Katy Perry and five other women
are set to blast into space aboard
Jeff Bezos' space tourism rocket.

The singer will be joined by
Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sánchez
and CBS presenter Gayle King.]





11mins in space


[Also on board are former Nasa rocket scientist
Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen,
and film producer Kerianne Flynn.

The spacecraft is fully autonomous,
requiring no pilots, and the crew
will not manually operate the vehicle.

The capsule will return to Earth with
a parachute-assisted soft landing,
while the rocket booster will
land itself around two miles away from
the launch site.

"If you had told me that I would be part
of the first-ever all-female crew in space,
I would have believed you.
Nothing was beyond my imagination
as a child. Although we didn't grow up
with much, I never stopped looking
at the world with hopeful WONDER!"
Mrs Perry said in a social media post.]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg8e5gq8ljo