Blue Origin's first all-women flight crew blasted off Monday on a journey 62 miles above Earth's surface to the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.

Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez and other participants blast off into space on a Blue Origin rocket, as part of the New Shepard Mission NS-31 in West Texas, Texas, on April 14, 2025.

Blue Origin is targeting 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT) on Monday (April 14) for liftoff of NS-31 from the company's Launch Site One, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Van Horn, Texas.

Holding a daisy to the sky, songstress Katy Perry emerged from a Blue Origin space shuttle before falling to her knees and kissing the hot Texan ground below her.

Blue Origin is an aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos. On April 14, 2025, the company sent an all-female crew into space. The crew was mainly made up of celebrities. This isn’t the first ...

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos took a tumble while rushing to greet his fiancée Lauren Sanchez and the rest of the all-female crew after they took a 10-minute flight into space. Bezos was seen on ...

What to Know: Blue Origin's NS-31 mission, with no pilot, launched successfully today. This was the first all-female crew since 1963 when Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.