Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez heading to space in Blue Origin rocket

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Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez heading to space in Blue Origin rocket

Recording artist Katy Perry performs onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show at University of Phoenix Stadium, now known as State Farm Stadium, in Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 1, 2015.

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Singer Katy Perry and CBS’ Gayle King will join Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez on his rocket company Blue Origin’s next crewed mission.

The company on Thursday

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the next six-person crew of its New Shepard rocket, which also includes aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, film producer Kerianne Flynn and Amanda Nguyen, a bioastronautics research scientist and civil rights activist. The launch is planned for this spring.

The mission will be the 11th human flight for Blue Origin’s New Shepard program. A trip on the New Shepard rocket lasts about 10 minutes. The reusable rocket carries people on a ride past the edge of space, with the spacecraft and crew floating in microgravity for a couple of minutes before returning to Earth.

Blue Origin previously sent up Bezos, its billionaire founder who also founded

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and owns the Washington Post, and ********* actor William Shatner on other crewed missions. To date, New Shepard has flown 52 people into space,

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