Meet the crew for Blue Origin's upcoming all-female spaceflight with Katy Perry

Meet the crew of Blue Origin's all-female spaceflight | Rookie NASA astronaut will launch to the ISS later this year | April's Full Pink Moon will rise as a 'micromoon' Created for ceo.studentlike.spuniv@blogger.com | Web Version April 11, 2025 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE   The Launchpad (Blue Origin) Meet the crew of Blue Origin's all-female spaceflight Blue Origin's first-ever all-female spaceflight is scheduled to launch on Monday (April 14). If all goes according to plan, the NS-31 suborbital mission, which will be Blue Origin's 11th human flight to date, will lift off from Launch Site One in West Texas at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT). Space.com will host a livestream of the launch, courtesy of Blue Origin. This mission features the first all-female crew to launch into space since 1963, when the Soviet Union sent cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova into orbit by herself. Here are the six people who will fly on NS-31. Read More (NASA) Rookie NASA astronaut will launch to the ISS later this year One of NASA's newest astronauts has just been assigned his first space mission. Chris Williams, who graduated with NASA's 23rd astronaut class last year, has been selected to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on the upcoming Russian Soyuz MS-28 launch. Williams will spend about eight months living aboard the orbital laboratory, serving as Expedition 74 flight engineer. Read More Skywatching (Vicki Smith via Getty Images) April's Full Pink Moon will rise as a 'micromoon' Skywatchers, get ready for a dazzling lunar display this weekend: April's full moon, known as the Pink Moon or Paschal Moon, will rise on the evening of Saturday, April 12. Read More Spaceflight (Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images) Blue Origin spaceflight urges women to shoot for the stars For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will fly with only women aboard. Blue Origin's all-female spaceflight crew, which includes pop star Katy Perry, is set to take off next week. Read More Science & Astronomy (ESA) Black hole has '100x more energy than seen elsewhere' We've all woken up in a terrible mood from time to time, but a newly observed monster black hole is really having a bad day. The previously inactive supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located about 300 million light-years away from us, was seen erupting with the longest and most powerful X-ray blasts ever seen from such a cosmic titan. Read More SpaceX (NASA/Bill Ingalls) Watch senator grill Jared Isaacman about Elon Musk's role Jared Isaacman's confirmation hearing on Wednesday (April 9) got a bit testy at one point. The 42-year-old Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur who has funded and flown two astronaut missions with SpaceX, is President Donald Trump's choice to lead NASA. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk was in Florida when Isaacman and Trump had a meeting, and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) asked if Musk was involved in the proceedings. Watch now Technology (CCTV) China to 3D-print bricks on the moon using lunar dirt China is getting ready to 3D-print bricks on the moon using lunar soil, in what could be a huge step toward building a base on the lunar surface. The Chang'e 8 spacecraft is currently scheduled to launch around 2028. The mission is planned as a stepping stone to China's International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) and could, potentially, mark a big breakthrough for moon exploration and habitation. Watch now Entertainment (Netflix) 'Love, Death + Robots' Season 4 is a maelstrom of explosions, aliens, dinosaurs, and... well robots (video) Lavished with critical praise and armfuls of gleaming Emmy Awards over the past three volumes, Netflix's mind-expanding animated anthology, "Love, Death + Robots," returns on May 15 with ten more stimulating shorts crafted in a variety of animation styles and tones. "Love, Death + Robots" Volume 4 is again delivered up by the killer creative team of Tim Miller ("Deadpool," "Terminator: Dark Fate") and David Fincher ("Se7en," "Zodiac," "Mindhunter") and unchains a veritable stampede of "dinosaur gladiators, messianic cats, and string-puppet rock stars." Watch now   Sign Up  |    Update Profile  |    Unsubscribe Privacy Policy  |    Cookies Policy  |    Terms and Conditions CONTACT US: FEEDBACK  |    ADVERTISE Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036