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Headline: UNCAPTIONED: Katy Perry Prepares To Go Extra-Terrestrial With Crewmates Ahead Of Blue Origin Blast-Off
Caption: Katy Perry Prepares To Go Extra-Terrestrial With Crewmates Ahead Of Blue Origin Blast-Off. Pop star Katy Perry and her crewmates have been preparing to go extra-terrestrial by blasting off into space. The Firework singer joins five other high-profile women on a journey into space aboard Jeff Bezos' spaceflight firm Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. The 40-year-old musician will be accompanied by Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, who helped assemble the crew, CBS broadcaster Gayle King, Amanda Nguyen, a prominent civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn, a film producer. The six have been undergoing two days of training in preparation for the mission, with an emphasis on physical readiness, emergency procedures, safety protocols and operating in zero gravity. After gaining a place on the flight, Perry wrote on Facebook: “If you had told me that I would be part of the first ever all-female crew in space, I would have believed you”. “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!”. The suborbital flight, which is fully autonomous, is scheduled to launch from its West Texas site during a launch window opening at 08:30 local time (14:30 BST).
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