LIVE VIDEO: Blue Origin Launches All-Female Crew

ABC News reports:

Six women, including pop star Katy Perry, are scheduled to be launched into space for about 11 minutes on Monday on a Blue Origin rocket, a lift-off that would mark the first all-female spaceflight since 1963, according to the company. The window for the latest New Shepard rocket launch is expected to open on Monday morning at about 8:30 a.m. CDT, according to Blue Origin. “I’ve dreamt of going to space for 15 years and tomorrow that dream becomes a reality,” Perry said Sunday.

The 11th crewed New Shepard flight, which is officially called NS-31, is expected to take off from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas. Along with Perry, the crew includes Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos’ journalist fiance, Lauren Sanchez, who is also a helicopter pilot. Journalist Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn round out the flight crew.

Read the full article. I’ll bump up this post shortly before the launch time of 9:30AM Eastern.