Katy Perry is undertaking final preparations before she joins an all-female crew on a Blue Origin space flight - and has given a glimpse inside the rocket she will be blasting into space in.The US pop star will join five other women for the first female-only mission in more than six decades.The crew – made up of Perry, former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and journalist Lauren Sanchez – managed to get in some last-minute astronaut lessons in Texas on Sunday, according to photos shared online by BlueOrigin.The trip, launching at 2.30pm BST (8.30am local time) on Monday, is expected to last around 11 minutes, and pass over the Karman line – an invisible boundary 62 miles (100km) above Earth.
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00:00Okay, I'm going to show you the capsule that we have been training in for the last few days.
00:11Here I am.
00:13Seat number two.
00:18This is my call name, Feather.
00:21Here on the new shepherd.
00:25I think I'm going to sing. I'm going to sing a little bit.
00:28I got to sing in space.
00:30And these are all of my astronaut girly friends.
00:35We are the Taken Up Space Crew.
00:40And of course that saying has had a different meaning to it.
00:46But I think it's now the first time ever that it's a double entendre.
00:51I do believe this. I'm not going to say I can't believe I'm here.
00:54I do believe this because I think that believing your dreams and saying that is actually how you make your dreams come true.
01:04I do believe this. I know.
01:16I think that's the example.