CALIFORNIA, April 14: Pop superstar Katy Perry is set to blast off to the edge of space on Monday, joining an all-female crew aboard a Blue Origin capsule and rocket. The mission, operated by the private spaceflight company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, marks a significant moment in commercial space tourism.

Perry will be accompanied by several prominent women: Gayle King, co-host of CBS Mornings; Lauren Sánchez, a former journalist and Bezos' fiancée; Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist; Amanda Nguyen, a bioastronautics research scientist; and Kerianne Flynn, a film producer.

The launch is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. ET on Monday from Blue Origin’s facility in Van Horn, Texas.

The mission is being hailed as historic, as it will be the first all-female crewed spaceflight since 1963, when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on a nearly three-day solo mission.

On Monday, the crew will soar into space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, which accelerates at over three times the speed of sound. The 10-minute suborbital flight will carry them just past the Kármán line — the internationally recognized boundary of space, located 62 miles above Earth.

During the brief trip, the passengers will experience a few minutes of weightlessness before descending gently back to Earth under parachutes, landing in the West Texas desert.

This will be Blue Origin’s 11th human flight using the New Shepard system — a fully autonomous rocket named in honor of Alan Shepard, the first American in space.

Blue Origin has previously flown several well-known figures, including Star Trek actor William Shatner, former NFL star Michael Strahan, Laura Shepard Churchley (daughter of Alan Shepard), and Jeff Bezos himself.

While tickets for a ride on New Shepard are believed to cost several hundred thousand dollars, Blue Origin has not revealed how much — if anything — the celebrity participants paid for this upcoming mission.