Blue Origin crew safely back on Earth after all-female space flight
Pop star Katy Perry and five other women safely returned to Earth after reaching space aboard Jeff Bezos’ rocket.
The singer was joined by Bezos’s fiancée Lauren Sánchez and CBS presenter Gayle King, who said a highlight of the flight was hearing Perry sing Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World”.
The New Shepard rocket lifted off from its West Texas launch site just after 08:30 local time (14:30 BST).
The flight lasted around 11 minutes and took the six women more than 100km (62 miles) above Earth, crossing the internationally recognised boundary of space and giving them a few moments of weightlessness.
Also on board were former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
Source: BBC | Language: English