Blue Origin’s New Shepard will launch from West Texas with its first all-women crew, including Gayle King and Katy Perry, this spring.
Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced the all-female celebrity crew on Thursday. Sanchez, a helicopter pilot and former TV journalist, picked the crew who will join her on a 10-minute spaceflight from West Texas,
Approximately 1,400 of Blue Origin's nearly 14,000 employees are being cut, primarily affecting workers in Florida, Texas, and Washington state, the media outlet reported. The layoffs come as the company ramps up production of its massive New Glenn rocket,
"Every crew has a special crew name, and this crew has named themselves a Perfect 10. Well, that makes perfect sense to me, considering the fact that this is, in fact, our 10th human flight."
Blue Origin is targeting next Tuesday (Feb. 25) for its 10th space tourism mission, which will send six people to the final frontier. If all goes according to plan, Blue Origin 's suborbital New Shepard vehicle will lift off from the company's West Texas site on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. EST (1630 GMT; 9:30 a.m. local Texas time).
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