Katy Perry joins all-female space voyage

Six women are set to blast off into space on a Blue Origin rocket, marking the first all-female flight crew in more than six decades

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PASSENGERS
Katy Perry (1); Aisha Bowe (2), former NASA rocket scientist; Amanda Nguyen (3), bioastronautics expert; Kerianne Flynn (4), film producer; two journalists Gayle King (5) and Lauren Sánchez (6)

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Valentina Tereshkova
Soviet cosmonaut’s solo flight in 1963 saw her become first woman in space

NEW SHEPARD

Height: 18 metres

Diameter: 3-3.5 metres

CAPSULE
Pressurised capsule, featuring largest windows ever used in space, allows up to six people to experience few minutes of weightlessness

FLIGHT PROFILE

Lift off from Van Horn, Texas

Capsule separates

Capsule reaches beyond Kármán line, over 100km above Earth, where space begins

Drag brakes deploy. Engine relights

Booster lands some 3km from launchpad

Capsule parachutes back to Earth

BE-3 engine: Fuelled by liquid oxygen and hydrogen

Sources: Blue Origin, Reuters, BBC
Pictures: Getty Images, Alexander Mokletsov
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