Katy Perry is going to space. The award-winning "E.T." and "Firework" singer will fly on a firework of her own when she joins the first all-female crew to launch on a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket later this year.

Katy Perry is embarking on a space journey aboard the Blue Origin rocket as a member of a historic, all-female crew. The launch is scheduled for this spring. The well-known singer Katy Perry will participate in the first mission with an entirely female crew aboard the Blue Origin rocket.

Blue Origin’s next crewed flight mission aboard its tourism rocket, expected to lift off this spring, will carry an all-female crew to space. Related video: Astronaut reflects on 250 days in space, upcoming return Journalist Gayle King,