Pop star Katy Perry reached new heights—literally—on Monday, joining an all-women crew for a sub-orbital spaceflight aboard Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket.
The brief mission launched from West Texas just after 8:30 a.m., taking the team over 100 kilometers above Earth, past the Kármán line—the internationally recognized edge of space.
Alongside Perry were Jeff Bezos’s fiancée Lauren Sanchez, TV host Gayle King, filmmaker Kerianne Flynn, former NASA scientist Aisha Bowe, and activist Amanda Nguyen. During the roughly 10-minute flight, the passengers experienced a few moments of weightlessness—enough time for Perry to float and sing What a Wonderful World.
“It’s a 10 out of 10,” Perry said upon landing, kissing the ground in joy. “This experience showed me how much love we hold inside and how loved we truly are.”
This was Blue Origin’s 11th crewed mission and the first all-female space crew since 1963, when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made history. The company, which competes with Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has been ramping up its space tourism efforts, though it does not publicly disclose ticket prices.
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King, visibly moved by the experience, reflected on the view from above: “It’s oddly quiet when you get up there… You look down at the planet and think, ‘That’s where we came from?’ It’s a powerful reminder of how much better we need to treat Earth and each other.”
The flight wasn’t just symbolic—it was deeply personal for many of the women. Perry revealed in a recent interview that the mission was for her daughter, Daisy. “I wanted to show her there are no limits, especially for girls,” she said.
The high-profile launch was also attended by friends and family, including Oprah Winfrey, who cheered from the sidelines in support of her longtime friend Gayle King.