On one of Jeff Bezos’ rockets, pop star Katy Perry will be the biggest name in an all-woman group that will travel to the moon on Monday and launch into space.
The singer will board a ship from Blue Origin, an independent space company owned by the Amazon founder, and will be lofted more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) above the Earth’s surface.
The flight, which is scheduled to depart from western Texas at around 8:30 am (1330 GMT), will include five other women, including Lauren Sanchez, Bezos’s fiancee.
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Before the crew capsule detaches mid-flight, the fully automated craft will rise vertically before crashing back to the ground as a result, slowed by parachutes and a retro rocket.
The first woman-only space  crew to join the Monday mission since Valentina Tereshkova’s famous solo mission in 1963.
Additionally, Blue Origin, which has provided space tourism experiences for a number of years, has completed its 11th sub-orbital crewed operation.
The company’s New Shepard rocket’s cost of travel is not made publicly known.
The flight, which will last about 10 minutes, will take the passengers beyond the internationally renowned Karman line.
The women will be able to unbuckle from their seats and float in zero gravity for a brief period.
‘Inspiration’
Perry recently disclosed to Elle magazine that she was taking part in “for my daughter Daisy” and that she would inspire her to “never have any limitations on her dreams.”
When she sees the rocket go, and she goes back to school the following day and says, “Mom went to space,” Perry continued, “I’m just so excited to see the inspiration through her eyes and the light in her eyes.”
She claimed in a separate Instagram video that she was shocked to learn that the capsule her parents gave her was called the “Tortoise” and had a “feather” design, which she was shocked to learn during space training.
Perry stated in the video, “There are no coincidences, and I’m just so grateful for these confirmations and so grateful that I feel like something bigger than myself is steering the ship.”
With her 2008 smash hit “I Kissed a Girl,” Perry, who was first introduced internationally, will perform alongside TV presenter Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, former NASA scientist Aisha Bowe, and founder of the group that fights against sexual violence, Amanda Nguyen.
They follow 52 previous Blue Origin passengers, including William Shatner, a former Star Trek star, in the lead role.
As Blue Origin fights several rival companies in the space tourism industry, such high-profile guests are intended to keep the public interested in its work.
Virgin Galactic, which offers a similar suborbital experience, is Bezos’ main rival in passenger flights.
However, Blue Origin intends to compete directly with SpaceX and Elon Musk in the future to land space travelers.
The much more powerful New Glenn rocket from Blue Origin completed its first unmanned orbital mission in January.
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