Blue Origin’s all-female crew, including Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez, prep for glammed-up space launch

Pop-star Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Gail King are fresh to return disconnected successful a glammed-up historical abstraction all-female tourism flight scheduled for Monday morning.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard 31 is group for motorboat starting astatine 9:30 a.m. from nan company’s westbound Texas base, pinch nan 3 celebs are group to beryllium joined by unit mates Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe and Kerianne Flynn.

Blue Origin’s laminitis is ex Amazon leader Jeff Bezos — and he’s sending his fiancée Sanchez to abstraction arsenic portion of nan mission.

The voyage, which is expected to alert conscionable supra nan bound of abstraction and past astir 11 minutes, will people nan first all-female abstraction travel since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova‘s solo formation successful 1963.

The unit vowed to look their champion during nan short abstraction flight, pinch immoderate preparing to make judge their makeup, eyelashes and hairdos past nan aggravated unit needed to time off nan Earth, nan weightlessness of pace, and nan return travel home.

“Space is going to yet beryllium glam,” Perry antecedently told Elle. “If I could return glitter up pinch me, I would do that. We are going to put nan ‘ass’ successful astronaut.”

The projected orbit of nan ngo will spot nan women soar astir 62 miles supra nan planet, conscionable supra nan Karman Line, which is internationally recognized arsenic nan constituent wherever Earth ends and outer abstraction begins.

At astir 2 minutes aft liftoff, nan New Shepard booster is group to abstracted from nan unit capsule and return successful a controlled touchdown astatine nan Blue Origin pad astir 2 miles northbound of nan motorboat site.

The women are group to return 10 to 11 minutes later successful a parachute landing successful nan Texas desert.

All six crewmates arrived astatine nan guidelines connected Saturday for nan ngo prep, which besides included a photo-op of nan women successful form-fitting Blue Origin’s jumpsuits astatine nan rocket span site.

Like pinch erstwhile abstraction tourism missions, Blue Origins designed a typical insignia to adhd to nan women’s abstraction suits featuring each their names and a wink to each of their useful and ambitions.

Next to Perry’s sanction is nan image of a firework, a reference to her deed 2011 song, pinch a alert adjacent Sanchez’s sanction arsenic a motion to her children’s book, “The Fly Who Flew to Space.”

King has a microphone to symbolize her activity connected CBS News, Nguyen has an icon of nan scales of justness for her civilian authorities advocacy, Flynn has a movie reel for her profession arsenic a movie shaper and Bowe has a target prima to symbolize her passion for STEM.

Along pinch taking successful nan sights, nan women person besides collaborated pinch various universities and subject groups to transportation retired a fewer experiments during their travel to space.

The women’s travel will people the New Shepard‘s 11th quality flight.