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All-female celebrity crew steers rocket into space
The New Indian Express Vishakapatnam
|April 15, 2025
JEFF Bezos' Blue Origin launched his fiancée Lauren Sanchez into space Monday with an all-female celebrity crew that included Katy Perry and Gayle King.
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It was the latest wave in space tourism, where more of the rich and famous than ever before or lucky and well-connected can enter the zero-gravity realm traditionally dominated by professional astronauts.
This story is from the April 15, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Vishakapatnam.
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