The Pop Katy Perry music star will fly into space today. It will be the first commercial space flight, with the participation of only female crew. The starting window will start today around 15.30 Polish time.
The organizer of the private NS-31 Space Flight is Blue Origin belonging to the American billionaire Jeff Bezos. Participants will fly to space on board the New Shepard rocket. In addition to Katy Perry, the first only women's crew in the history of commercial space flights will include: journalist Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, was a scientist with NASA Aisha Bowe, Bioastronautics researcher Amanda Nguyen, and the mission commander will be Lauren Sanchez, journalist and partner of the founder Blue Origin Jeff Bezos.
The flight will take several minutes
According to New Shepard plans, it is to start from Western Texas today. The starting window will start at 15.30 of our time. During the flight lasting about 11 minutes, the rocket will fly to a height of 100 kilometers, crossing the Karman line that is a contractual border between the atmosphere of the Earth and the space. Women on board will experience the state of weightlessness and will be able to see the curvature of our planet.
The machine will be operated fully autonomously. The capsule will return to the ground with a parachute and soft landing, while the load -bearing rocket will land a few kilometers from the starting site. The last only women's space flight took place over 60 years ago. In June 1963, the Soviet Kosmonautka Walentina Tierieszkowa became the first woman who flew alone in cosmos On board the spacecraft at Wostok 6.
Source of the main photo: Blue Origin/X