Katy Perry has blasted off to house together with 5 different ladies within the first all-female house crew in over sixty years.
The Firework singer lifted off from West Texas on a Blue Origin rocket earlier than turning into the primary artist to sing in house.
Flying alongside Perry had been writer Lauren Sanchez, the fiancee of Blue Origin proprietor and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, journalist and TV presenter Gayle King, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.
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Katy Perry rings a symbolic bell earlier than boarding the New Shepard rocket. Pic: Blue Origin
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(Seated left to proper) Lauren Sanchez and Kerianne Flynn, (standing left to proper) Amanda Nguyen, Katy Perry, Gayle King and Aisha Bowe. Pic: Blue Origin
The star-studded crew had been supported on the bottom by household and buddies together with Kris Jenner, Khloe Kardashian and Oprah Winfrey, who mentioned she had “never been more proud” of her pal, King.
“There’s only one time all the women are going up for the first time,” Oprah mentioned she instructed her pal when urging her to go on the flight, telling her she’d remorse turning down the chance.
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Weightlessness
The crew had been weightless for simply 4 minutes after passing the Karman line, a 62-mile-high boundary that’s internationally recognised because the boundary of house.
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Pic: Blue Origin
They could possibly be heard screaming as they started to really feel weightless, and instructed one another to take a look at the unbelievable views of the moon.
Because the crew had been leaving house, Perry began to sing What a Fantastic World by Louis Armstrong.
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Requested why she selected that tune, she mentioned: “It’s not about me or about me singing my songs, it was about a collective energy in there.
“It is about this excellent world that we see proper on the market and appreciating it.”
She confirmed she can be writing a tune concerning the expertise.
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Katy Perry kisses the bottom after the flight. Pic: Blue Origin
The descent
Three parachutes on their capsule opened as much as deliver them safely again all the way down to Earth and simply earlier than they landed, an air cushion blew a cloud of mud up within the west Texas desert, giving a dramatic-looking landing.
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Pic: Blue Origin
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Pic: Blue Origin
“Excited as I am, I’ll be very glad when we come back down,” mentioned self-confessed nervous flier King earlier than liftoff.
When she exited the shuttle, the presenter kissed the ground and mentioned: “Thank you, Jesus”.
She mentioned it was “oddly quiet” in house, and it reminded her that folks wanted to “do better and be better” on Earth.
“It was the most incredible experience of my life to be up there and see such vast darkness in space and look down on our planet,” mentioned Flynn, via tears.
“The moon was so beautiful and I feel like that was a special gift just for me,” she mentioned.
