When they asked me, they asked me around Thanksgiving, I was like, ‘no, no, no." Gayle King said. "Then I started thinking about it and I just thought ‘what a unique opportunity.‘"

Katy Perry and Gayle King are headed to space with Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez and three other women. Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced the all-female celebrity crew on Thursday. Sanchez,

The celebrities join three other women as the crew of the upcoming Blue Origin journey, which is set to launch this spring.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is set to fly Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King as part of a six-person, all-female spaceflight.

CBS Mornings” star Gayle King’s upcoming participation in an all-female space flight aboard a Blue Origin rocket ship owned by Washington Post proprietor Jeff Bezos reportedly isn’t sitting well with newsroom staffers at the publication in light of the mogul’s recent overhaul of its opinion section.

Jeff Bezos is best known as Amazon's kingpin, but he also owns an aerospace company (sound familiar?) that will send a new crew of high-profile women on a mission later this year. As announced on Feb.