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Broadcast journalist and tv persona Gayle King is becoming a member of an all-female crew that’s going to area.
CBS introduced on Thursday, Feb. 27 that Blue Origin, the area firm based by businessman Jeff Bezos, will ship a crew of ladies to area. Members will embrace King, musician Katy Perry, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyễn, NASA aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, movie producer Kerianne Flynn, and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, who’s engaged to Bezos.
Blue Origin says that is the eleventh human flight for Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, and that it has flown 52 individuals to this point. Different crew members since its first flight in 2012 embrace Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan, actor William Shatner, and Bezos himself.
King mentioned on CBS Mornings that when she was initially requested to affix the flight round Thanksgiving 2024, she mentioned no. However after discussing the concept together with her “cupboard” — greatest pal Oprah Winfrey, daughter Kirby Bumpus, and son William Bumpus Jr. — she determined that the chance was too large to cross up. She mentioned that the launch was an opportunity to comply with via on a promise she made to herself for her seventieth birthday, which she celebrated in December.
“I needed to open myself as much as new adventures and step out of my consolation zone,” King mentioned. She was shocked that Winfrey was on board with the launch, however she mentioned that her longtime pal made an incredible level. “She mentioned, ‘I feel in the event you don’t do it, after they all come again and also you had the chance to do it, you’ll be kicking your self.’ She was proper.”
The crew met one another for the primary time on Wednesday, and have began a bunch chat to speak with one another within the months forward. King mentioned that she was impressed by every of the ladies, however that she felt that she stood out as a result of going to area wasn’t the lifelong aim for her that it was for her compatriots on the launch.
“All these individuals, this has been their dream; it was by no means my dream,” she mentioned. “Somebody mentioned, “perhaps you’ll want to have new desires, Gayle.”
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