flown by Blue Origin USA

NS-31

Success
APR 14202513:30:00 UTC

11th crewed New Shepard flight and the first all-female spaceflight since Valentina Tereshkova flew Vostok 6 in June 1963. The crew of six included singer Katy Perry, CBS News anchor Gayle King, journalist and pilot Lauren Sánchez, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.

Nguyen became the first woman of Vietnamese descent to reach space; Bowe the first person of Bahamian descent.

launched from Corn Ranch

aboard New Shepard 5 NS-31 into Suborbital

Vehicle components · 2

  • 01 Booster NS5.3
    apogee 106.7 km
  • 02 Capsule RSS Kármán Line
    apogee 106.8 km

Payload

Blue Origin NS-31

Space tourism

Passengers · 6

  • 01 Aisha Bowe from USA
  • 02 Amanda Nguyen from USA
  • 03 Gayle King from USA
  • 04 Katy Perry from USA
  • 05 Kerianne Flynn from USA
  • 06 Lauren Sánchez from USA