Katy PerryandGayle Kingare among the stars whowill be blasting off into spacetoday as part of an all-female commercial spaceflight.
Blue Origin, the interstellar tech company founded byJeff Bezos, announced in February that the E.T.
The ship will take off from Blue Origins Launch Site One in West Texas this morning.
Katy Perry, Gayle King, Blue Origin rocket.Simon Ackerman/Getty; Jamie McCarthy/WireImage; PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty
When is the launch?
The launch window for the expedition officially opens at 9:30 a.m. ET/6:30 a.m. PT on April 14.
Who is aboard the ship?
It is the first all-female crew since 1963, perBlue Origin.
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What will they do up there?
The capsule will then travel back down, where main parachutes will deploy so that they land safely.
The entire expedition is expected to take around 11 minutes.
Are the stars nervous about the space flight?
“I was like, ‘What am I going to wear?
Gayle King and Katy Perry.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
‘“Perry joked toElleof her first reaction to getting the out-of-this-world invite.
I take pause in those moments and ask the universe to give me confirmations.
And so I was like, ‘Okay, I see it.'”
King previously said she was “terrified and excited at the same time” about the space adventure.
“It’s like how I felt about to deliver a baby,” she said onCBS Mornings.
She’s right.”
