Here are the women taking Blue Origin's star-studded all-female space flight

Blue Origin will have an all-female crew that’s traveling into space from the company’s launch site in West Texas. 

Who is boarding the Blue Origin space flight?

What we know:

Katy Perry joins a crew that includes Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn, who are launching into space aboard Blue Origin's New Shephard rocket, NS-31.

Perry is one of the best-selling music artists of all time with over 115 billion streams and is also the biggest-selling female artist in Capitol Records history.

King is an award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Mornings and Sánchez is an Emmy award-winning journalist. 

Nguyen is a bioastronautics research scientist who graduated from Harvard and has worked on the last NASA shuttle mission, STS-135, and the Kepler exoplanet mission, FOX Weather noted.  She will be the first Vietnamese and Southeast Asian woman astronaut.

Flynn has spent the last decade in nonprofit work telling FOX Weather that she’s passionate about storytelling. Flynn has produced films like "This Changes Everything," which explores the history of women in Hollywood.

FOX Weather reported that Bowe is a former NASA rocket scientist and CEO of STEMBoard, an engineering company recognized as one of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. 

What we don't know:

The launch date for the flight has not been announced yet, FOX Weather reported.

Has an all-women crew flown to space before?

Dig deeper:

Blue Origin noted that this upcoming flight will be the first all-woman flight since the Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963, USA Today reported. 

The new flight with the star-studded crew will be the 11th human flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history.