Blue Origin Crew of 6 Ladies, Together with Gayle King and Katy Perry, Land Safely After Area Journey

The printed journalist Gayle King and the singer Katy Perry made a short journey into house on Monday on a flight operated by Jeff Bezos’ non-public firm, Blue Origin. It was the primary time an all-female crew had been to house since 1963.

Their flight, on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, lasted 10 minutes and 21 seconds and took off from Blue Origin’s Launch Website One in West Texas, about 120 miles southeast of El Paso at 8:30 a.m. native time.

After the flight, Ms. King exited the crew capsule and mentioned, “I might similar to to have a second with the bottom,” earlier than kneeling.

Ms. King had spoken earlier than the launch about being afraid of the journey.

“I stepped out of my consolation zone in a manner that I by no means thought was doable for me,” Ms. King mentioned. “And now that I’ve finished it, I actually do really feel I can tackle something, something.”

Ms. King mentioned that Ms. Perry sang “What a Great World” in the course of the flight.

“It’s not about singing my songs, it’s a couple of collective power in there,” Ms. Perry mentioned after they returned to Earth.

It was the eleventh human flight for the New Shepard program, which had beforehand flown 52 individuals, together with repeat astronauts, above the Kármán line, the internationally acknowledged boundary of house about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth.