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Katy Perry to blast off on Jeff Bezos rocket in DAYS – exact timeline for space trip as star reveals if she’s nervous

Published on April 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM

KATY Perry is set to blast off on a star-studded spaceflight inside one of Jeff Bezos' luxurious Blue Origin capsules.

The upcoming NS-31 spaceflightwill be the first all-female space flight since Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight in 1963.

Katy Perry at the Breakthrough Prize Awards.
Katy Perry attends the 11th Breakthrough Prize Awards on 5 April, 2025
Collage of six women: Aisha Bowes, Kerianne Flynn, Gayle King, Amanda Nguyen, Katy Perry, and Lauren Sánchez.
The all-female crew of the NS-31 spaceflight
Interior of Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft.
The flight is expected to only last around 11 minutes – which is the average length of a Blue Origin tourist flight

Perry, 40, will be accompanied by Bezos' fiancée, journalist , TV host, engineer Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.

“I don't have any time to be nervous; I don't have time to be worried,” the popstar told Elle magazine.

“I'm going to feel something when they go, '10, 9, 8, 7,…' but until then, we've got stuff to do. We've got business to handle.”

Perry said she is compiling a playlist inspired by her upcoming trip that includes tracks by David Bowie, Nicki Minaj, the B-52's and at least one of her own songs.

The launch is scheduled for 14 April, at 9.30am ET (2:30pm BST) from Blue Origin's West Texas site.

The experience is expected to only last around 11 minutes – which is the average length of a Blue Origin tourist flight.

The will take the crew 62 miles into the sky, to the very edge of Earth's atmosphere.

Here, Perry and crew will be able to see the curvature of the Earth against the inky black background of space.

While they won't actually reach orbit, the height will create a zero-gravity effect on board, allowing the six passengers to float.

The New Shepard has already made 30 astro-tourism flights since its first crewed mission in 2021.

Blue Origin is the private space company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

The upcoming NS-31 flight will be the 11th human flight on New Shepard – with each flight costing roughly $5million per launch, according to Space Insider.

The crew are currently undergoing their final training sessions.

Blue Origin representative, Sarah Knights, told Good Morning America in 2021: “We want them to be incredibly comfortable with every little thing.

“Even to the point where they're going to know exactly where each of the cameras is inside of the vehicle, so they can plan out any photos that they want to take and get really ready for what that journey will look like as they go up.”

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