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Katy Perry Blasts Off Into Space During Successful Blue Origin Launch
Singer Katy Perry and 'CBS Mornings' anchor Gayle King were among the six passengers Monday on an all-female voyage into to the edge of space.
The eight-minute flight traveled more than 62 miles into the atmosphere, past the Kármán line, which per Blue Origin is the “internationally recognized boundary of space.” Blue Origin promises passengers in its burgeoning space tourism business that the trip offers the chance to experience “several minutes of weightlessness and witnessing life-changing views of Earth.” The module containing the astronauts, suspended from three parachutes, landed several minutes after the rocket. Joining Perry and King are Bezos’ fiance, journalist and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, engineer and NASA veteran Aisha Bowe, activist and scientist Amanda Nguyen and movie producer Kerianne Flynn. The venture made its first flight in July 2021 with passengers that included Bezos and Wally Funk, a pioneering female astronaut who trained as part of NASA’s Mercury program in the 1960s.
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