Pop star Katy Perry and 5 different ladies launched into area on a Blue Origin rocket and efficiently returned to Earth on Monday (Apr 14), marking the first all-female spaceflight in more than 60 years.
The crew lifted off from West Texas at 9:31am ET (1331 GMT) and traveled to the sting of area, the place they skilled a short interval of weightlessness earlier than returning to Earth in a flight lasting round 11 minutes, in line with a reside broadcast by Blue Origin, the area firm based by billionaire Jeff Bezos.
The spaceflight was a high-profile success for Bezos’ New Shepard launch car, which has been developed for area tourism.
The six-person crew additionally included Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez, CBS host Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, scientist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn.
King mentioned that when the crew returned to their seats after weightlessness, Perry sang the Louis Armstrong track “What a Fantastic World.”
“I really feel tremendous linked to like,” Katy Perry mentioned after touchdown again on Earth.
Perry was holding a daisy, a flower she took into area, to remind her of her daughter, Daisy.
Amongst celebrities in attendance on the launch pad have been a tearful Oprah Winfrey, a detailed buddy of King, and present enterprise personalities Kris Jenner and Khloe Kardashian.
It was the primary all-female spaceflight since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova – the primary girl in area – orbited Earth throughout an almost three-day solo flight in 1963.
