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Gayle King, Katy Perry And All-Woman Blue Origin Crew Successfully Complete 10-Minute Space Trip


An emotional Oprah Winfrey, with tears in her eyes, watched from the Blue Origin Launch Site One in West Texas as her old friend Gayle King blasted off at 9:30 a.m. ET as part of the rocket’s first all-women crew. King, singer Katy Perry, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Kerianne Flynn and Lauren Sánchez took off […]

An emotional Oprah Winfrey, with tears in her eyes, watched from the Blue Origin Launch Site One in West Texas as her old friend Gayle King blasted off at 9:30 a.m. Prior to lift off, King told CBS Mornings, “This is such an unlikely place for me to be, so I’ve just in my mind said, ‘OK.’ I feel well prepared for this moment after the training we had…but it still hasn’t eased the fear that I have.” In addition to King and Perry, the crew included journalist and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, film producer Kerianne Flynn, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen.

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