Blue Origin launches star-studded crew on space tourism rocket
Posted: Apr 14, 2025 11:45 AM EDT
CNN VAN HORN, Texas -- Pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King are among six women who traveled aboard Blue Origin’s all-female, suborbital space tourism mission in Monday morning.
Liftoff aboard the company’s New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin’s West Texas launch site took place around 9:30 a.m. ET Monday.
This marks the 11th crewed trip to space for a New Shepard spacecraft.
Only about 15 percent of the more than 700 people who have traveled to space so far have been women.
