Katy Perry Set To Join Lauren Sanchez And Gayle King On Groundbreaking All-Female Space Mission Aboard Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Feb 28
Katy Perry: Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P. is an American space technology company headquartered in Kent, Washington.
The company operates the suborbital New Shepard rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. In addition to producing engines for its own rockets, Blue Origin supplies engines for other vehicles, including United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur. It is also working on the Blue Moon human lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program, the Blue Ring spacecraft platform, and the Orbital Reef space station in partnership with other organizations.
Katy Perry, Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin initially operated with a very low profile, funded by Bezos’s private investments. In 2015, the company achieved a significant milestone with the first uncrewed launch and landing of the New Shepard and announced plans for New Glenn. In 2021, New Shepard completed its first crewed mission with Bezos himself on board, crossing the Kármán line, the conventional definition of the edge of space, 100 kilometers (62 mi) above sea level.
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Another key achievement came in January 2023 when the company delivered its first BE-4 rocket engine to United Launch Alliance. Despite these milestones, Blue Origin has faced criticism for its perceived slow progress, particularly when compared to SpaceX. Addressing these challenges, the company underwent a leadership change in September 2023, appointing Dave Limp as CEO to succeed Bob Smith.
On January 16, 2025, Blue Origin reached orbit with the first launch of the New Glenn vehicle.
The three celebrities will be part of Blue Origin’s first all-female mission!
Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez are headed to space aboard one of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket ships.
Katy Perry, The three will also be joined by Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist; Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist; and Kerianne Flynn, a movie producer. The group will take off in the New Shepard spacecraft from the company’s West Texas base this spring. An exact date has not yet been set.
The forthcoming mission will be Blue Origin’s 11th mission and its first all-female crew.
Sánchez, Bezos’ fiancée, is said to have “brought the mission together,” according to Blue Origin.
“[Sanchez] is honored to lead a team of explorers on a mission that will challenge their perspectives of Earth, empower them to share their own stories, and create lasting impact that will inspire generations to come,” the company said in a statement.
Katy Perry, Since the New Shepard is a fully autonomous spacecraft, “every person on board is a crew member — there are no pilots.”
“This flight will undoubtedly prove to be a life-changing experience for each of us, and I’m honored to be with such an incredible group of explorers,” Sánchez said. “Most importantly, I am looking forward to all the women in this crew sharing their story and inspiring future generations to dream big.”
Katy Perry, During their 11-minute journey, they will fly past the Kármán line, which is an internationally recognized border between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.
The news comes weeks after Blue Origin announced that it would be laying off 10 percent of its workforce.
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Katy Perry, “Our primary focus in 2025 and beyond is to scale our manufacturing output and launch cadence with speed, decisiveness, and efficiency for our customers. We grew and hired incredibly fast in the last few years, and with that growth came more bureaucracy and less focus than we needed,” CEO Dave Limp wrote in an email obtained by The Independent.
“It also became clear that the makeup of our organization must change to ensure our roles are best aligned with executing these priorities. Sadly, this resulted in eliminating some positions in engineering, R&D, and program/project management and thinning out our layers of management.”
Blue Origin has been trying to make gains in the industry dominated by its rival SpaceX, which recently landed a $40 million NASA contract as its CEO and founder Elon Musk, the head of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, called for significant funding cuts to parts of the government.
Katy Perry, Last month, Blue Origin launched its first successful flight since 2022, carrying six tourists. The brief suborbital trip ended a nearly two-year pause in crewed operations after a mission failure in 2022.
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. Perry is one of the best-selling music artists in history, having sold over 143 million units worldwide. She is known for her influence on pop music and her camp style, being dubbed the “Queen of Camp” by Vogue and Rolling Stone.
At 16, Perry released a gospel record titled Katy Hudson (2001) under Red Hill Records, which was commercially unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles at 17 to venture into secular music, and later adopted the stage name “Katy Perry” from her mother’s maiden name.
Katy Perry, She recorded an album while signed to Columbia Records, but was dropped before signing to Capitol Records. Perry rose to fame with One of the Boys (2008), a pop rock record containing her debut single “I Kissed a Girl” and follow-up single “Hot n Cold”, which reached number one and three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 respectively.
The disco-influenced pop album Teenage Dream (2010) spawned five U.S. number one singles—”California Gurls”, “Teenage Dream”, “Firework”, “E.T.”, and “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”— the only album by a female singer to do so. The album’s reissue titled Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection (2012) produced the U.S. number one single “Part of Me”.
Katy Perry, Her empowerment-themed album Prism (2013) had two U.S. number one singles, “Roar” and “Dark Horse”. Both their respective music videos made her the first artist to have multiple videos reach one billion views on Vevo and YouTube. Afterwards, Perry released the albums Witness (2017), Smile (2020) and 143 (2024) to varying critical and commercial success.
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Perry has the second-most U.S. Diamond-certified singles for any female artist (six). She has received various accolades, including a Billboard Spotlight Award, four Guinness World Records, five Billboard Music Awards, five American Music Awards, a Brit Award, a Juno Award, and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. Outside of music, she released an autobiographical documentary titled Katy Perry:
Katy Perry, Part of Me in 2012, voiced Smurfette in The Smurfs film series (2011–2013), and launched her own shoe line Katy Perry Collections in 2017. Perry served as a judge on American Idol from the sixteenth season in 2018 to the twenty-second season in 2024. Forbes ranked her as the world’s highest-paid female musician in 2015 and 2018. With an estimated net worth of $350 million, she is one of the world’s wealthiest musicians. Billboard ranked her fourth on its “Greatest of All Time Pop Songs Artists” list and twenty-fifth on their “Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century” list.
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