Katy Perry is blasting off into space, and no, this isn’t a music video or a fever dream from 2012. The pop star is part of Blue Origin’s all-female flight, where she’ll swap rhinestones for rocket suits and maybe write “Firework” 2.0 mid-orbit. Meanwhile, Earth gets slightly less fabulous, and aliens prepare for the concert of a millennium—assuming they’re into glitter and gravity-defying choruses.

Katy Perry to train in zero-gravity for historic Blue Origin space flight