The Amazon founder’s Blue Origin is due to undertake its 11th flight with six women on board Good morning and welcome to our blog covering Blue Origin’s 11th human flight as Jeff Bezos blasts his bride-to-be, Lauren Sánchez, and five other women into space in what is being billed as the first all-female crew to attempt such a mission. A crew of six women – Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist who will become the first Vietnamese woman to fly to space; the CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King; the pop star Katy Perry; film producer Kerianne Flynn; entrepreneur and former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe; and Sánchez, a journalist and philanthropist – will blast off on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket from the company’s launch site, 30 miles north of Van Horn, Texas, on an 11-minute, suborbital flight to the edge of space and back. Continue reading...