By Joe Brock
Apr 14 (Reuters) – The pop star Katy Perry and five other women threw themselves into space in a blue rocket rocket and returned successfully to Earth on Monday, in which it was the first space flight performed entirely by women in more than 60 years.
The crew took off from western Texas at 1331 GMT and traveled to the edge of the space, where he experienced a brief period of ungravation before returning to Earth on a flight that lasted about 11 minutes, according to a live Blue Origin broadcast, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos.
The crew of six people also included the fiancee of Bezos, Lauren Sánchez, the presenter of the CBS Gayle King, the former Nasa Cometes scientist Aisha Bowe, the scientist Amanda Nguyen and the film producer Kerianne Flynn.
King said that when the crew returned to his seats after the intimidation, Perry sang the song by Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World”
“I feel super connected to love,” Katy Perry said after landing back on earth. The singer held a Margarita, a flower that led to space, to remember her daughter Daisy.
This is the first full -female space flight since the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova – the first woman in space – orbit the earth during a solo mission of almost three days in 1963.
Blue Origin does not reveal the average cost of a seat in one of its rockets. On its website, the company says that potential passengers have to pay $ 150,000 in the form of reimbursable deposit to start the “order process.”
In 2021, the company revealed that the highest offer for a seat in its New Shepard spacecraft was 28 million dollars. That same year, the actor of “Star Trek” William Shatner flew for free as a guest of Blue Origin.
In 2018, Reuters reported that the company planned to charge passengers at least $ 200,000 for the trip.
Blue Origin says on its website that aims to radically reduce the cost of access to space, with its rockets designed for reuse.
(Joe Brock report; edited in Spanish by Javier Leira)
