Lauren Sánchez’s next space trip aboard Jeff Bezos’ $2.5 billion rocket with Katy Perry and Gayle King might also double as the most iconic and expensive bachelorette trip of all time. The glamorous pilot is ready to join an all-female crew on a journey flying 62 miles above Earth.
Lauren Sánchez has always had a passion for the sky, which is no surprise for the acclaimed helicopter pilot and fiancée of the second richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, whose fortune is valued at $223 billion.
The future wife of Amazon’s founder will fly to space with an all-female crew of six as part of the final flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard program, according to LuxuryLaunches.
The owner of the aerial film production company Black Ops Aviation has been planning this mission since November 2022, gathering a group of remarkable women after her tech magnate fiancé flew to the edge of space on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket with his brother, Mark Bezos.
Now, Lauren Sánchez, a woman who has piloted helicopters, dreamed of space, and even wrote a children’s book about it, is about to fulfill that dream in the best way possible.
After two years, nothing will stop Lauren Sánchez, Katy Perry, Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, research scientist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn from making history. The group will board an 11-minute flight just above the Kármán line, about 62 miles above Earth’s surface.
However, Lauren Sánchez won’t be in the pilot’s seat this time. Blue Origin clarified in a statement that “every person aboard is a crew member” and that there are no “pilots,” as the New Shepard spacecraft is fully autonomous.
Still, it’s a remarkable feat, one that could easily be dubbed her celestial bachelorette party, shared with an extraordinary group of women in space. While the term might sound frivolous, there’s nothing ordinary about this event.
Solidifying it as a historic moment, the aerospace company confirmed that this will be the first all-female crew to travel to space in decades, a record for the company. Blue Origin also made history in October 2021 when Star Trek actor William Shatner became the oldest person to travel to space at 90 years old.
Now, Lauren Sánchez, who once surprised her son with an aerial view of his soccer practice, is taking things to the next level with a team of women who are openly “taking up space.”
She shared a post on Instagram: “I really see this group as explorers and storytellers, each one of us about to be transformed by an extraordinary view of our beautiful planet. The countdown begins now! #takingupspace.”
Someone who won’t be joining them? Bezos. “As much as he wants to go on this flight, I’ll have to hold him back,” Lauren Sánchez said with a smile. “He’ll be cheering for us from the sidelines.”
The helicopter pilot decided to become a flight attendant but failed.
At 18, Lauren Sánchez left home for Los Angeles with the dream of becoming a flight attendant. But even that goal fell apart when she was told she didn’t meet Southwest Airlines’ weight requirement. “At that time, they weighed you, and I weighed 121 pounds,” she recalled of the mandatory weighing in 1989, when she failed. “They told me, ‘You need to be 115.’” Decades later, fate had other plans. If they asked her today if she still wanted to be a flight attendant, Sánchez’s answer would likely be: “I don’t want to be a flight attendant, I want to be a pilot!”
The deep connection of Lauren Sánchez with the sky
From helicopters to space travel, according to the Luxury Launches website, Sánchez’s life revolves around flying. In addition to her upcoming mission, she founded Black Ops Aviation in 2016, one of the first female-owned aerial film production companies specializing in television and film.
“I don’t know why more women don’t do this,” she once said. Sánchez frequently pilots Bezos and his family around the world, making sure to get into the cockpit at least three times a week to stay sharp on the instruments, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Even her storytelling flies, literally. She wrote a children’s book, *The Fly Who Flew to Space*, a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, inspired by a moment in a helicopter. “I was in the helicopter and there was a fly,” Sánchez shared. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, look, a fly that flew! This would be a great children’s book.’ And it worked.” In the book, the protagonist, Flynn, embarks on a journey around the Earth before reuniting with his family.
Now, Lauren Sánchez is about to embark on a journey of her own, one for the history books. Sánchez’s bachelorette party (if she didn’t think of it, we hope this makes her reflect), this time, in space.
Source: LuxuryLaunches
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