Blue Origin Touches Down: Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez Successfully Go to Space in All-Female Flight
Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn and Amanda Nguyen also join the first all-female crew flight to space since 1963, according to Jeff Bezos' company The post Blue Origin Touches Down: Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez Successfully Go to Space in All-Female Flight appeared first on TheWrap.
Katy Perry, Gayle King and philanthropist and Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez have officially made interstellar history. The three public figures along with three other female astronauts launched into space on Monday on a Blue Origin rocket.
This mission marks the first all-female spaceflight since 1963 when Valentina Tereshkova of the former Soviet Union became the first woman to take a solo mission into space. The other members of the flight included former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.
Altogether, the flight lasted about 10 minutes and 30 seconds. The crew could be heard over the livestream cheering and reacting to seeing the moon. The live feed started to glitch around five minutes in with 305,000 viewers. Though it didn’t appear on the live stream, Perry did make good on her promise to sing in space, singing “What a Wonderful World” when the astronauts returned to their seats after Zero-G.
