Gayle King’s upcoming participation in the flight aboard a Blue Origin rocket ship owned by Jeff Bezos reportedly isn’t sitting well with newsroom staffers.

Blue Origin is targeting next Tuesday (Feb. 25) for its 10th space tourism mission, which will send six people to the final frontier. If all goes according to plan, Blue Origin 's suborbital New Shepard vehicle will lift off from the company's West Texas site on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. EST (1630 GMT; 9:30 a.m. local Texas time).

Lauren Sánchez, who got engaged to Jeff Bezos in 2023, founded an aerial filming company that has shot footage for Amazon, Netflix, and Fox.

Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos plans to launch an all-female crew into space that includes Katy Perry, Gayle King and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez.

That mission is known as NS-30, because it will be the 30th overall launch of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket-capsule combo. It will be the 10th crewed flight for the company, which was established in 2000 by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Jeff Bezos has directly invested in at least 108 startups across all industries since 1998, when he was reported to have invested $250,000 into Google. Although he does not publis

Blue Origin's upcoming mission with an all-female crew, led by Lauren Sánchez and featuring Katy Perry, Gayle King, and others, aims to inspire women in space exploration. Scheduled for spring 2025, this mission will bring the crew above the Kármán line,

Rocket company Blue Origin is will lay off 10% of its workforce, CEO Dave Limp told employees Thursday. The company — which is based in Kent, Washington, and has a Phoenix office that opened in 2023 — employs 14,000 people, according to media reports, so the cuts will affect about 1,400 workers across its offices and facilities.

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire Amazon tycoon, is sending the singer Katy Perry, broadcaster Gayle King and his fiancee Lauren Sanchez into space in the first all-female commercial space flight...