Katy Perry and Gayle King are officially a part of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin’s all-women crew on their next trip to space.
On Thursday, February 27, Blue Origin announced the six people flying on the spring 2025 mission: Perry, 40, King, 70, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, film producer Kerianne Flynn and Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez.
According to Variety, the mission will be the 11th human flight for Blue Origin’s New Shepard program and will mark the first all-female flight crew since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963.
Following the announcement of the mission, Perry took to social media to share the exciting news herself.
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“If you had told me that I would be part of the first ever all-female crew in space, I would have believed you 
,” the “California Girls” singer wrote via Instagram on Thursday. “Nothing was beyond my imagination as a child. Although we didn’t grow up with much, I never stopped looking at the world with hopeful WONDER! I work hard to live my life that way still, and I am motivated more than ever to be an example for my daughter that women should take up space (pun intended).”
Perry noted that the opportunity is “so incredible” because she has the chance to “show all of the youngest and most vulnerable among us to reach for the stars, literally and figuratively.”
“I am honored to be among this diverse group of celestial sisters 
,” she added.
King, for her part, also shared her thoughts on traveling to space in a Thursday segment on “CBS Mornings.”
“I don’t know how to explain being terrified and excited at the same time. It’s like how I felt about to deliver a baby,” she shared, noting that she consulted with her children and friends before deciding to go on the mission.
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Perry and King aren’t the first celebrities to travel to space. In October 2021, William Shatner went on the Blue Origins rocket and became the oldest person to make the journey
“In a way, it’s indescribable. Not only is it different from what you thought, it happens so quickly,” the Star Trek actor, 93, shared on Blue Origin’s livestream following the flight. “Everybody in the world needs to do this. Everybody in the world needs to see.”
Shatner went on to share how scary it is that the world can just be ripped away.
“You look down … there is mother Earth, comfort. And [up] there, is there death? I don’t know. Is that the way death is? Whoop, and it’s gone. Jeez. It was so moving,” he explained. “This experience, it’s something unbelievable.”
