Pop star Katy Perry and journalists Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, who is also billionaire Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, are set to blast off into space on a Blue Origin rocket, marking the first all-female flight crew in more than six decades.

The New Shepard rocket, a 59-foot tall (18-meter) suborbital spacecraft, will carry the crew to the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space, Bezos-owned Blue Origin said in a statement.

Passengers will experience a few minutes of microgravity before returning to Earth via parachute-assisted landing in the West Texas desert.

NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics researcher Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn will make up the rest of the crew.

The company has not disclosed a date for the mission.

“Missions like this can be an effective PR tactic to bring in the private money needed to reduce costs in the long run,” said Professor Ehud Behar, astrophysicist at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

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Technion astrophysics Professor Ehud Behar is quoted in this article.