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Gayle King is ready to affix an all-female crew on Blue Origin’s subsequent house flight this spring.
“I don’t know methods to clarify being terrified and excited on the identical time. It’s like how I felt about to ship a child,” Gayle mentioned throughout the announcement on “CBS Mornings.”
Earlier than agreeing to the journey, King consulted along with her children and Oprah Winfrey.
“As soon as Kirby and Will and Oprah was tremendous with it, I used to be tremendous,” King mentioned. “I assumed Oprah would say no, no. She mentioned, ‘I feel if you happen to 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’s proper.”
The crew will embody pop celebrity Katy Perry, journalist and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn.
This would be the eleventh human flight for Blue Origin’s New Shepard program, with earlier passengers together with William Shatner and Jeff Bezos, founding father of each Blue Origin and Amazon.
The flight will take the crew to the boundary of house, 62 miles above Earth, to the Kármán line.
Gayle King, Katy Perry to Fly into Area with All-Ladies Crew on Jeff Bezos’ Rocket
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