Kellie Gerardi, a commercial astronaut, will replace Diana Ross as the godmother of Royal Caribbean's Star of the Seas, an Icon-class ship.

Royal Caribbean launches the Star of the Seas. Discover all its new features, renovated family areas, and technologies such ...

The Baltimore-based ship will be making a port-of-call stop at Port Canaveral on Aug. 17, while bypassing a planned stop in Bermuda.