Blue Origin Completes Space Trip Featuring All-Female Crew | Katy Perry | Gayle King | Live | N18G

All eyes were on the West Texas desert Monday morning as Katy Perry and five other celebrities launched into space on a short flight aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket and capsule.

Joining Perry as part of the all-female crew was Gayle King, “CBS Mornings” co-host; Lauren Sánchez, a former journalist who is Jeff Bezos’ fiancée; Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist; Amanda Nguyen, a bioastronautics research scientist; and Kerianne Flynn, a movie producer.

The high-profile launch drew a crowd, with several famous faces in attendance, including Oprah Winfrey, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps, former astronaut Mae Jemison, Kris Jenner and Khloé Kardashian.

Liftoff took place at 9:30 a.m. ET from Blue Origin’s launch site in Van Horn, Texas.

During the roughly 10-minute flight, the six crew members flew just above the Kármán line, an invisible boundary at an altitude of 62 miles that is widely accepted as the edge of space.

While in space, Bowe held up a patch representing the Bahamas and the women tumbled and did handstands in weightlessness. Perry also sang “What a Wonderful World” and held up a daisy.

"Daisies are common flowers, but they grow through any condition," Perry said after the flight. "They are resilient. They are powerful. They are strong."

It appeared to be a picture-perfect flight. The reusable New Shepard booster returned to Earth and landed vertically a few miles away from the launch site before the capsule made its own descent under parachutes and touched down in the Texas desert.

It was a jubilant and emotional return for all six crew members. Perry and King kissed the ground after they exited the spacecraft and most fought back tears as they described the experience of gazing back at Earth from the edge of space.

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