((Newsnation– Six women are scheduled for Monday To take the first trip from all females to space In more than half a century.
Members of the prominent group-artist Katie Perry, journalists Gayel King and Lauren Sanchez, former NASA world Aisha Boy, civil rights activist Amanda Ngwin, and film producer Kyrien Flynn-in West Texas for several days for training and synthesis to obtain the spacecraft.
Blue Origin, the missile company owned by Amazon Jeff Bezos, announced the flight earlier this year. Although the journey has received widespread attention to the gender of its crew, the first journey from all females exceeded the atmosphere was accomplished by astronauts in the Soviet era Valentina Tirishkova, on a single mission in 1963.
The new shepard launch window is scheduled to open on Monday at 9:30 am East time/8:30 am CT, the company says.
All participants in this week’s journey on board the new sponsor capsule from Blue Origen have expressed this opportunity.
“I feel very grateful, honorable and honored to invite and include it with this amazing group of women,” Berry told the Associated Press last week.
It is expected that they will continue to space about 10 minutes. The special task has acquired critics such as actress Olivia Moon, who says the project seems exorbitant when compared to the problems that belong to the Earth.
Blue origin does not announce its prices online, but it requires a deposit of $ 150,000 per seat.
Despite what critics might say, it is not everything fun and games. Noguyen, for example, performs three experiments in space to help future generations of astronauts. Its research includes a test of the speed of plant growth in space and how space pioneering deals with moisture.
“Women, at the beginning of NASA, were prevented from becoming astronauts, and one of the reasons mentioned is menstruation, but they did not have the data that arrived. So, my experience will collect data, in the hope of refuting that,” Ngwin recently said.
Bezos Rocket Origen announced the crew in February. Sanchez, a former helicopter and a TV journalist, chose the women to join on the space plane.
The Blue Asset moved tourists in short jumps to space since 2021, after that Bezos went up on board with his brother For the opening trip; The next trip will be 11 of the company’s human transfer.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.