Blue Origin crew including Katy Perry safely returns to Earth after space flight
by Edward Helmore from Science | The Guardian on (#6WKVT)
All-female crew led by Jeff Bezos's fiancee Lauren Sanchez lands in Texas after reaching the edge of outer space
Six women - including the pop star Katy Perry and morning TV host Gayle King - safely completed a trip to the edge of outer space and back from a private Texas ranch on Monday morning on a rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos, the Amazon co-founder and commercial space flight entrepreneur.
The women, who also included Bezos's fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, made the trip to the Karman line - the internationally recognized boundary of space - to float about, weightlessly, in the rocket's capsule for three minutes before returning to Earth.
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