Pop star Katy Perry and five other women launched into space on a Blue Origin rocket and successfully returned to Earth on Monday, April 14.
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00:00Pop star Katy Perry and five other women launched into space on a Blue Origin rocket
00:05and successfully returned to Earth on Monday, April 14.
00:08This marks the first all-female spaceflight in more than 60 years.
00:12In a live broadcast by Blue Origin, the crew lifted off from West Texas on 9.31am
00:17and traveled to the edge of space where they experienced a short period of weightlessness
00:21before returning to Earth in a flight that lasted around 11 minutes.
00:25Blue Origin is a space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos.
00:29The crew is composed of Bezos' fiancé Lauren Sanchez, CBS host Gayle King,
00:34former NASA rocket scientist Ayesha Bao, scientist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Carrie Ann Flynn.
00:40King says Perry sang Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World when the crew returned to their
00:45seats after weightlessness. Perry was also holding a daisy flower,
00:49which she brought with her to remind her of her daughter Daisy.