Pop famous person Katy Perry and “CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King had been among the many six passengers Monday on an all-female voyage into to the sting of area through Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin area journey enterprise.

Blue Origin‘s New Shepard rocket soared into area after blastoff from the corporate’s West Texas launch facility at 9:30 a.m. ET on Monday.

The eight-minute flight traveled greater than 62 miles into the ambiance, previous the Kármán line, which per Blue Origin is the “internationally acknowledged boundary of area.” Blue Origin guarantees passengers in its burgeoning area tourism enterprise that the journey provides the prospect to expertise “a number of minutes of weightlessness and witnessing life-changing views of Earth.” The module containing the astronauts, suspended from three parachutes, landed a number of minutes after the rocket.

The New Shepard rocket operates autonomously and not using a pilot. Becoming a member of Perry and King are Bezos’ fiance, journalist and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, engineer and NASA veteran Aisha Bowe, activist and scientist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn. The launch is designed to convey consideration to girls in aeronautics.

“I gotta sing in area,” Perry posted on Instagram on Sunday. However when requested about that remark throughout a pre-recorded CBS interview with the entire new astronauts, she mentioned, “It gained’t be about me, it is going to be about this stunning Earth. I believe from up there, we are going to assume ‘Oh my God, we’ve got to guard our mom.’”

Perry — or presumably one other astronaut — did certainly sing through the flight, though what she was singing was unclear.

King advised CBS Information, “I’ve made no secret of the truth that I’m very nervous but additionally very excited.”

The TV protection reduce included footage of individuals on the bottom cheering because the rocket took off and gained altitude. After a a few minutes it broke the sound barrier and entered the ambiance.

The astronauts had been heard marveling on the sight of the moon.

Bezos, founder and chairman of Amazon, launched Blue Origin in 2000. The enterprise made its first flight in July 2021 with passengers that included Bezos and Wally Funk, a pioneering feminine astronaut who educated as a part of NASA’s Mercury program within the Sixties.

The gravity of the occasion was mirrored by a remark from one announcer, who mentioned after the touchdown, “It’s really outstanding that every one these individuals on the bottom have been trying up on the sky for the previous a number of minutes — and nobody’s been taking a look at their cellphone.”