Katy Perry and Gayle King are going to space. These celebrities have already been.

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Ahead of next week's launch with Gayle King and Katy Perry, look back at previous Blue Origin spaceflights that included Michael Strahan, William Shatner and Jeff Bezos as passengers.​

Gayle King, Katy Perry and four others are due to become the latest space tourists to board a Blue Origin rocket for a brief trip high above Earth.

For nearly four years since the first ticket sold for $28 million through an online auction, billionaire Jeff Bezos' space technology company has been offering regular trips to space to people who either have deep pockets or recognizable names.

The brief voyage takes civilian passengers on a trip above the Kármán Line – the 62-mile-high internationally recognized boundary of space – where they can experience a few minutes of weightlessness. Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, which takes off from the company's Launch Site One in rural west Texas, also comes with a crew capsule outfitted with large windows for them to enjoy the stunning view of Earth.

Pop music artist Perry and King, co-host of "CBS Mornings," were announced last month as being among the next humans due to launch on the trip. Joining them is civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, filmmaker Kerianne Flynn and Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sánchez.

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Katy Perry and Gayle King are going to space. These celebrities have already been.

Ahead of the next launch, look back at previous Blue Origin spaceflights that included Michael Strahan, William Shatner and Jeff Bezos as passengers.

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