00:00Katy Perry and Gayle King have come back down to Earth following their flight to the edge
00:04of space on Monday morning, which marked the first flight to space by an all-female crew.
00:10They joined Lauren Sanchez, film producer Carrie Ann Flynn, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha
00:16Bowe, and research scientist Amanda Nguyen on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin spaceflight.
00:22The new Shepard rocket and capsule roared off the pad at 9.31 a.m. local time from Blue Origin's
00:27launch site in Van Horn, Texas.
00:32The expedition took flight for around 10 minutes and reached an altitude of 62 miles.
00:53Back at the launch pad, Bezos and a host of celebrities, including an emotionally overcome
00:58Oprah Winfrey, watching her best friend King soar into space, craned their heads to look
01:03at the spaceflight high above.
01:04It'll be 50 years next year.
01:06We've been friends since we were 21 and 22, and I have never been more proud of my friend.
01:11After the capsule and the rocket separated, and the astronauts unbuckled to experience
01:15weightlessness in space for a couple of minutes, the six women and their capsule returned to
01:20Earth and landed under parachutes in the Texas desert at 9.42 a.m.
01:24Once back and out of the capsule, both Perry and King kneeled to kiss the Earth before reaching
01:28out to friends and family.
01:29For people that are afraid, it's, Eleanor Roosevelt once said, courage is doing something that
01:35scares you, but you do it anyway.
01:37And I stepped out of my comfort zone in a way that I never thought was possible for me.
01:41And now that I've done it, I really do feel I can take on anything, anything.
01:46Perry said she will write a song to commemorate her spaceflight and recalled singing It's a
01:50Wonderful World while in space rather than one of her own songs to her fellow astronauts.
01:54It's not about singing my songs.
01:56It's about a collective energy in there.
02:00It's about us.
02:00It's about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging.
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02:09This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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