How to watch Gayle King's flight to space with Blue Origin's all-women crew
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The countdown has begun. Blue Origin's first all-women flight crew is shooting for the sky in West Texas on Monday if they get the all-clear for their rare space ride — blasting off on a journey 62 miles above Earth's surface to the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.
The space launch window for the NS-31 mission, which marks the 11th human flight of Jeff Bezos' New Shepard program, is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. ET, depending on weather conditions.
"I can't wait to see what all the chatter is about — or how I feel or how I will be changed," King told "CBS Mornings" co-anchors Nate Burleson and Tony Dokoupil. She'll be joining pop superstar Katy Perry, journalist and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, film producer Kerianne Flynn, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen. Bowe will be the first Bahamian and Nguyen the first Vietnamese and Southeast Asian woman in space.
