{"id":1235733,"date":"2025-02-28T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235733"},"modified":"2025-02-28T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T07:00:00","slug":"more-random-rich-people-are-going-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235733","title":{"rendered":"More Random Rich People Are Going To Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Blue Origin on Thursday announced the crew for its next mission. &#8220;The crew most notably includes popstar Katy Perry and broadcast journalist Gayle King. They will be joined by two scientists &#8212; Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen &#8212; as well as Jeff Bezos&#8217; fiancee, TV personality Lauren Sanchez and film producer Kerianne Flynn,&#8221; reports TechCrunch. From the report: Blue Origin says this marks the first all-female space crew since Soviet astronaut Valentina Tereshkova&#8217;s 1963 solo mission, which made her the first woman ever to go to space. For the company&#8217;s New Shepard rocket, this is its 31st trip to space, and its 11th with a crew. This journey is expected to last around 10 to 12 minutes; and if you&#8217;re willing to drop a $150,000 deposit, you too can reserve a future spot on a short space jaunt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=More+Random+Rich+People+Are+Going+To+Space%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F27%2F2138217%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/twitter_icon_large-334.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F27%2F2138217%2Fmore-random-rich-people-are-going-to-space%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facebook_icon_large-249.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/02\/27\/2138217\/more-random-rich-people-are-going-to-space?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23622853&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin on Thursday announced the crew for its next mission. &#8220;The crew most notably includes popstar Katy Perry and broadcast journalist Gayle King. They will be joined by two scientists &#8212; Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen &#8212; as well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235733\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}