Humans have visually documented about 1,470 square miles, or a mere 0.001 percent, of the deep seafloor, according to a new study. That’s a little larger than the size of Rhode Island. The report, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, arrives as nations debate whether to pursue industrial mining of the seabed for critical…
This image provided by Blue Origin shows from left: Jeff Bezos, Kerianne Flynn, Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Aisha Bowe, Gayle King, Amanda Nguyen, Sarah Knights, director of Blue Origin’s astronaut office, and Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp. (Blue Origin via AP) When Katy Perry floated into microgravity aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket earlier this…
Though women remain severely underrepresented in the aerospace field worldwide, they do regularly escape the Earth’s atmosphere. More than 100 have gone to space since Sally Ride became the first American woman to do so in 1983. If an all-women spaceflight were chartered by, say, NASA, it might represent the culmination of many decades of…
(Blue Origin’s all-female crew returns safely on Earth after spaceflight | Image source: BBC) In a milestone for commercial spaceflight and gender representation in space, six women—including global celebrities and professionals from diverse fields—safely returned to Earth after completing a suborbital journey aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. The mission, launched on April 14, 2025,…
Blue Origin rocket carrying Katy Perry and all-female crew reaches edge of space, returns safely Jeff Bezos with his fiancée Lauren Sánchez; New Shepherd 31 capsule; Katy Perry The Blue Origin rocket carrying pop superstar Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King, and Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez successfully launched from West Texas, marking the company’s 11th…
The broadcast journalist Gayle King and the singer Katy Perry were set to make a brief trip into space on Monday on a flight operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. It would be the first time an all-female crew has been to space since 1963. Their flight, on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket,…
In a record-breaking crossover between the space and entertainment industries, international pop icon Katy Perry will be blasting off into space aboard Blue Origin‘s next NS-31 mission. It’s a historic first, with Perry set to join an all-female crew—the last time a space mission had an all-female crew was in 1963, when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina…
Blue Origin’s all-female space mission with Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez launches April 14 Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is preparing to launch its 11th human spaceflight mission, NS-31, featuring a groundbreaking all-female crew. This event marks a pivotal moment in commercial spaceflight history and global…
Blue Origin will be breaking history with its upcoming NS-31 mission, which has an all-female crew on the New Shepard spacecraft. Pop singer Katy Perry will be part of the team, taking off in spring 2025 as the first female crew to fly into space since pioneering solo mission pilot Valentina Tereshkova flew in 1963….
The singer and songwriter Katy Perry and the broadcast journalist and show host Gayle King will be among the all-female crew on the next mission of New Shepard, the space tourism rocket that is operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. Blue Origin announced the lineup on Thursday, ahead of a planned spaceflight this…