Katy Perry launched into space with Blue Origin

Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, and the 4 different women connected Blue Origin’s NS-31 flight.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has launched popular vocalist / songwriter Katy Perry into space, on with five different women: erstwhile NASA scientists Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen, writer Gayle King, writer and Bezos fiancée Lauren Sánchez, and movie shaper Kerianne Flynn. Their flight, called NS-31, launched aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket arsenic its motorboat model opened at  8:30AM CT / 9:30AM ET. It’s being livestreamed some on YouTube and Blue Origin’s website.

Past New Shepard flights person taken passengers conscionable to the borderline of space, wherever they’re allowed to unbuckle and roam freely for a fewer minutes wrong the capsule earlier buckling up again for re-entry. The capsule past deploys a parachute and touches backmost down successful westbound Texas. Seven minutes aft today’s launch, the New Shepard rocket itself touched backmost down connected its landing pad, portion the capsule carrying the Blue Origin capsule’s passengers touched down much than 3 minutes aft that.

In a video posted to Instagram earlier the flight, Perry said she plans to marque a “special uncover coming to you from zero gravity.” She posted an earlier video touring the capsule that she and the others volition beryllium aboard, and said she volition astir apt sing successful space. Whatever that uncover was, it wasn’t audible connected the livestream, which chopped retired a fewer times portion we were watching.

This is Blue Origin’s 31st New Shepard launch. The rocket’s past formation was successful February, and erstwhile tourists aboard New Shepard flights see William Shatner, and 90-year-old Ed Dwight, who was America’s archetypal astronaut candidate, but who ne'er made it to space.