Pop icon Katy Perry is set to journey into space on an upcoming all-female flight aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.
Blue Origin said this is the first all-women space flight to take place since the Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova's solo mission in 1963, reports BBC.
There is no specific date for the launch, but Blue Origin said it would take place this spring.
Katy Perry is scheduled to be on her Lifetimes Tour from 23 April until 11 November, so this trip is expected to take place before that.
"If you had told me I'd be part of the first all-female crew in space, I would have believed you. Nothing was beyond my imagination as a child," Perry said in a statement cited by Newsweek.
The NS-31 mission will mark the 11th human spaceflight for the New Shepard rocket and its 31st overall.
To date, the program has sent 52 people into space. According to Blue Origin, a New Shepard flight lasts approximately 11 minutes, is fully autonomous (no pilots), and takes passengers beyond the Karman line, which is internationally acknowledged as the boundary of space.
The Firework singer will be joined by Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos's fiancee Lauren Sanchez, CBS presenter Gayle King, former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
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