Katy Perry Joins Historic All-Women Space Flight, Crosses Edge of Space
American pop star Katy Perry made history on Monday by joining an all-women space flight mission, marking the first such mission since 1963. The brief suborbital flight, organized by Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin, launched from Texas at 8:30 AM and safely returned to Earth approximately 10 minutes later.
The mission’s crew consisted of six women, including Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez, and renowned TV host Gayle King. The rocket soared to an altitude of 100 kilometers (about 62 miles), crossing the Kármán line — the internationally recognized boundary of space.
During the flight, Gayle King reported that Perry sang “What a Wonderful World” as the crew floated in zero gravity. Upon landing, Katy Perry exited the capsule, kissed the ground, and exclaimed, “That was a 10 out of 10 experience!”
This mission marks the first all-women spaceflight since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo journey into space in 1963.
