Blue Origin’s all-women crew launches, returns safely to Earth

Blue Origin launched a historic human spaceflight on Monday morning from West Texas, and the crew in the New Shepard rocket’s 31st mission was made up of all women.

The six women include journalist Gayle King, pop icon Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez, film producer Kerianne Flynn, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen.

There were no pilots, and the flight was a fully autonomous eleven-minute journey above the internationally recognized boundary of space.

The crew experienced weightlessness and witness views of Earth through windows.

This is the first all-female flight crew since Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight on a Soviet spacecraft in 1963.

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