who went to space with katy perry

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Katy Perry went to space with five other women on an all-female crew aboard Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket. The crew members were:

  • Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos's fiancée and journalist
  • Gayle King, CBS anchor and TV presenter
  • Aisha Bowe, former NASA rocket engineer
  • Amanda Nguyen, civil rights advocate and bioastronautics researcher
  • Kerianne Flynn, film producer

This mission marked the first all-female spaceflight in over 60 years and lasted about 11 minutes, reaching over 100 kilometers above Earth

. During the flight, Katy Perry famously sang Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" while experiencing weightlessness