Ladies, get in formation.
Katy Perry, Gayle King, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez and the rest of Blue Origin’s all-female crew posed in their space suits in a photoshoot over the weekend ahead of their journey Monday.
Perry, 40, posted the pictures on Instagram and wrote, “Happy International Day of Human Space Flight 🚀 Forever in awe of the Universe and it’s alignment ✨.”
In the photos, the women all had their last names written on the front right of their blue jumpsuits. They also had “Blue Origin” emblazoned down the arm.
Sánchez, 55, confirmed to the New York Times that she designed the suits with help from Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, the co-founders of the brand Monse and creative directors of Oscar de la Renta.
“Let’s reimagine the flight suit. Usually, you know, these suits are made for a man. Then they get tailored to fit a woman. I think the suits are elegant but they also bring a little spice to space,” she told the outlet.
“Simplicity was important, and comfort, and fit,” Garcia told the Times of the suits. “But we also wanted something that was a little dangerous, like a motocross outfit. Or a ski suit. Flattering and sexy.”
Sánchez also confirmed that she’s wearing Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS underwear on the space flight.
Former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn are also going on Bezos’ New Shepard rocket Monday.
In a recent interview with Elle, the six women confirmed they are going to space in full makeup.
“Space is going to finally be glam. If I could take glam up with me, I would do that,” said Perry, who also declared, “We are going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut.”
The “Roar” singer also shared, “I don’t have any time to be nervous; I ain’t got time to be worried. I’m going to feel something when they go, ‘10, 9, 8, 7,…’ but until then we’ve got stuff to do. We’ve got business to handle.”
King, on the other hand, has admitted she’s nervous to take off into space.
“I don’t know how to explain being terrified and excited at the same time. It’s like how I felt about to deliver a baby,” the 70-year-old journalist said on “CBS Mornings” in Feb.
“This was never my dream. It was never my dream,” King added. “And somebody said, maybe you need to have new dreams, Gayle.”
Monday’s trip will last 11 minutes and will reach 62 miles above the surface to the limits of Earth’s atmosphere.
The mission will mark the 11th human flight for the Bezos-owned rocket company’s New Shepard program.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
