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Blue Origin completes space trip featuring all-female crew

Katy Perry and five other celebrities launched into space on Monday on a short flight aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket and capsule.New Shepard's 11th human flight has landed back on Earth with its all-women crew, carrying Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, and Kerianne Flynn, into space.Liftoff took place at 9:30 a.m. ET from Blue Origin’s launch site in Van Horn, Texas.Blue Origin said that the New Shepard crew reached an altitude of more than 346,000 feet, with the mission in total taking just more than 10 minutes.

During the roughly 10-minute flight, the six crew members flew just above the Kármán line, an invisible boundary at an altitude of 62 miles that is widely accepted as the edge of space, before the capsule descends under parachutes and lands in the Texas desert.

Lauren Sánchez said her trip to space was not what she expected, saying Earth looked quiet but "also so alive." "I feel I don’t even know how much it’s going to change me," she said, adding that she felt joy and gratefulness during the flight.


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