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Katy Perry and Gayle King have come back down to Earth flowing their flight to the edge of space on Monday morning, which marked the first flight to space by an all-female crew. They joined and Lauren Sánchez, film producer Kerianne Flynn, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and research scientist Amanda Nguyen on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin spaceflight.

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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.

00:48The 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.

01:30For people that are afraid, it's...

01:32Eleanor Roosevelt once said,

01:33Courage is doing something that scares 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.

01:45Anything.

01:45Perry said she will write a song to commemorate her spaceflight, and recalled singing It's

01:50a Wonderful World while in space, rather than one of her own songs to her fellow astronauts.

01:54It's not about singing my songs.

01:57It's about a collective energy in there.

01:59It's about us.

02:00It's about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging.

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