The joyride to space has been billed as a historic event, featuring the first female-only crew since 1963, when Valentina Tereshkova of the former Soviet Union became the first woman in space when she launched into orbit on a solo mission that lasted slightly under three days.

Jeff Bezos-led Blue Origin is set to launch a star-studded all-woman crew on its New Shepard rocket on a suborbital flight to the edge of space. The mission, NS-31, is scheduled to lift off on Monday morning from the company's launch pad in Van Horn, Texas. A live stream of the launch will be available on the Blue Origin website.

Space technology company Blue Origin is scheduled to launch an all-female flight into space Monday morning, April 14 from its West Texas launch site outside of Van Horn. The launch window begins at 7:30 a.