‘No place like home’, says singer Katy Perry after return from Blue Origin space flight

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Pop star Katy Perry turned one of many few civilians to journey to space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft on Monday. In a put up on X after her return, Perry wrote, “There’s no place like home,” accompanied by a coronary heart and an Earth emoji, signalling her reduction and gratitude for being again.

Earlier, she described the journey as “emotional,” saying it was “second only to being a mum.” During the brief journey, she even sang “What a wonderful world,” a second she described as deeply shifting.
She additionally mentioned it wasn’t only a bodily journey however a private one, revealing to her simply how a lot love she has to present—and the way a lot she’s surrounded by it.

Perry returned safely to Earth after a roughly 10-minute sub-orbital flight, which took her greater than 100 kilometres above the planet’s floor.
It was Blue Origin’s eleventh human spaceflight and its first all-female crewed mission. The crew briefly skilled weightlessness as they crossed the Kármán line, the internationally recognised boundary of space.
Perry was joined by journalist Gayle King, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez, ex-Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights advocate Amanda Nguyen, and movie producer Kerianne Flynn.