When they asked me, they asked me around Thanksgiving, I was like, ‘no, no, no." Gayle King said. "Then I started thinking about it and I just thought ‘what a unique opportunity.‘"

Katy Perry and Gayle King are headed to space with Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez and three other women. Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced the all-female celebrity crew on Thursday. Sanchez,

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is set to fly Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King as part of a six-person, all-female spaceflight.

Pop star Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez and news anchor Gayle King will be among a six-person crew for Blue Origin’s upcoming flight, marking what Bezos’ aerospace firm said would be the first all-woman crew to travel to space in decades.

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.

Jeff Bezos is best known as Amazon's kingpin, but he also owns an aerospace company (sound familiar?) that will send a new crew of high-profile women on a mission later this year. As announced on Feb.

Katy Perry mused about finding a "futuristic lover" with "different DNA" on the song "E.T." The pop star might finally get her chance to have an intergalactic encounter when she suits up with an all-female crew for the next civilian space flight on Amazon boss Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket.