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To boldly glow where no billionaire's fiancee has glown before! On Monday Lauren Sanchez, Katy Perry and friends will zoom into space wearing lipstick, fake lashes - and nappies, writes ALISON BOSHOFF
History will be made on his Blue Origin company craft New Shepard as this will be the first all-woman space flight since Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo trip in 1963.
With the declared intention to 'put the ass into astronaut' – whatever that means – and complete with well-glued fake lashes, a cargo of teddy bears and postcards, bespoke blue flightsuits and, yes, nappies for everyone, a six-strong all female 'crew' will, briefly, go up into space this Monday on Jeff Bezos' rocket. Lauren Sanchez – helicopter pilot, journalist, philanthropist, children's author and fiancee of billionaire Amazon tycoon Bezos – will be on board for the 11-minute ride, along with five hand-picked female flying companions, who are all getting a freebie as her 'guests'. But there are two days of mandatory training in order to comply with Federal Aviation Administration regulations before blast-off from Launch Site One, a spaceport in the West Texas town of Van Horn, near the Mexican border.
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