Katy Perry is scheduled to be on her Lifetimes Tour from 23 April until 11 November, so this trip is expected to take place before that.

“If you had told me I’d be part of the first all-female crew in space, I would have believed you. Nothing was beyond my imagination as a child,” Perry said in a statement cited by Newsweek.

The NS-31 mission will be the 11th human spaceflight for the New Shepard rocket and the 31st in its history. So far, the programme has launched 52 people into space.

A trip on the New Shepard typically lasts about 11 minutes, according to Blue Origin. It is fully autonomous – which means there are no pilots – and takes the passengers past the Karman line, internationally recognised as the edge of space.

Blue Origin credited Lauren Sanchez for bringing the mission together, saying in its press release that she is “honored to lead a team of explorers on a mission that will challenge their perspectives of Earth, empower them to share their own stories, and create lasting impact that will inspire generations to come”.

Sanchez first announced her plan to fly with an all-women crew on a Blue Origin rocket in 2023 in an interview with Vogue, saying they were “paving the way for women”.

This is the latest group of celebrities to embark on a flight to space.

Bezos himself flew on the company’s first manned mission in 2021. Good Morning America’s co-host Michael Strahan and Star Trek actor William Shatner have also been blasted into space on one of Bezos’s rockets.

Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, made a trip aboard his company’s VSS Unity spacecraft in July 2021. SpaceX founder Elon Musk, however, is yet to make a trip.