Closing summary
An all-female crew, including the pop star Katy Perry, are back on Earth after completing a trip to the edge of outer space on a rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-31 mission made the trip to the Kármán line – the internationally recognised boundary of space – to float about, weightlessly, in the rocket’s capsule for three minutes before returning to Earth.
Its crew consisted of Perry, morning TV host Gayle King, former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and Bezos’s fiancee, Lauren Sánchez
The flight was the 11th human flight for the New Shepard program, which has flown 52 people, including repeat astronauts, to the Kármán line
Perry said she would “100%” record a song about her experience, which she described as being as coming only second to becoming a mother. King revealed that Perry sang a rendition of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” while in space
Blue Origin has published its stats from today’s mission:
The Crew Capsule reached an apogee of 346,802 ft AGL / 350,449 ft MSL (106 km AGL / 107 km MSL).
The booster reached an apogee of 346,481 ft AGL / 350,128 ft MSL (106 km AGL / 107 km MSL).
Official launch time was 8:30:00 AM CDT / 13:30:00 UTC.
Capsule landing occurred at 8:40:21 AM CDT / 13:40:21 UTC.
The mission elapsed time was 10 min 21 sec.
