Blue Origin set to launch all-female spaceflight with Katy Perry on April 14
Blue Origin will launch an all-female spaceflight with Katy Perry on Monday morning (April 14), and you’ll watch the historic motion reside.
Perry and her crewmates — Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Kerianne Flynn and Lauren Sánchez (who’s the accomplice of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos) — are set to launch to suborbital area aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard automobile from the corporate’s West Texas website on Monday.
The launch window opens at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT; 8:30 a.m. native Texas time). You may watch it reside right here at House.com, courtesy of Blue Origin, or immediately by way of the corporate. Protection will start 90 minutes earlier than liftoff.
Monday’s mission is called NS-31, as a result of will probably be the thirty first flight up to now for New Shepard, a reusable rocket-capsule combo. This would be the eleventh crewed flight for New Shepard; the opposite missions have been uncrewed analysis jaunts.
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NS-31 may even be the primary all-female spaceflight since June 16, 1963, when the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova launched on a three-day solo journey to Earth orbit.
Perry and her colleagues will not be gone for almost that lengthy; New Shepard missions final simply 10 to 12 minutes from liftoff to capsule landing. However the NS-31 crew will get above the Kármán Line, the internationally acknowledged boundary of outer area, which lies 62 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth. They will additionally get to expertise a couple of minutes of weightlessness and see our planet in opposition to the blackness of area.
We do not know the way a lot this expertise prices; Blue Origin has not revealed its ticket costs. However its most important competitor within the suborbital area tourism enterprise, Virgin Galactic, at present expenses $650,000 per seat.
