Katy Perry will "shoot across the sky" with an all-female crew, including Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, a NASA rocket scientist, a bioastronautics research scientist and a film producer.

Actress Olivia Munn wondered this week if celebrities going on a all-female space trip later this month is the best thing they could be doing with their lives.

Space exploration was to further our knowledge and to help mankind. What are they gonna do up there that has made it better for us down here?” Munn said.