Blue Origin has revealed the crew members of the New Shepard rocket’s next trip to space, marking its 11th voyage into the stars with a passenger crew.

The most notable crew members of this launch, expected to occur sometime this spring, include musician Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez, a pilot and the fiancee of Blue Origin founder and owner Jeff Bezos. Other crew members include CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.

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???? Meet the New Shepard NS-31 crew launching this spring: Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez, who brought the mission together. Read more: https://t.co/w4ryNViYPI pic.twitter.com/qm45kHVc2e

— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) February 27, 2025

The rocket is named after Alan Shepard, the United States’s first astronaut to be launched into space. While this will mark its 11th visit to space while carrying human passengers, it will be its 31st overall.

New Shepard just finished another trip to space carrying six passengers in February. Blue Origin successfully launched a human crew into space on the rocket in July 2021, during which Bezos and his brother, Mark Bezos, became the first siblings to venture into space.

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In January, Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit, with the goal being to launch a rocket into space every month. New Glenn boasts the feature of the prototype Blue Ring Pathfinder, which aims to help satellites maneuver space and can also tow up to 6,600 pounds.

Amid Bezos’s focus on space, he has also sought to shake up production at the Washington Post, which he purchased in 2013. On Wednesday, he announced that the paper would no longer publish opinion editorials opposing “personal liberties” or “free markets,” which the Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher suggested is Bezos trying “something new.”