Katy Perry, Gayle King to Fly to Space on Blue Origin’s All-Women Flight

Pop star Katy Perry and CBS’s Gayle King are set to fly to space alongside Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez, on an upcoming all-women flight of Blue Origin’s tourist rocket.

In a blog post on Thursday, Blue Origin announced the next six-person crew of its New Shepard rocket, which also includes Kerianne Flynn — a producer — Aisha Bowe — a former NASA scientist and chief executive officer of STEMBoard — and Amanda Nguyen — a bioastronautics research scientist and advocate for survivors of sexual violence.