What song did Katy Perry sing on her Blue Origin space flight?
That's the experience that the Blue Origin flight crew got today on their brief voyage into space.
Blue Origin, an aerospace company headed by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched the first all-female space voyage in 60 years on Monday in the company's NS-31 rocket. The flight included journalist Gayle King, Bezos' fiance Lauren Sanchez, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics scientist Amanda Nguyen, film producer Kerianne Flynn and, yes, pop star Katy Perry.
How'd the voyage go? Well, we actually got a glimpse of it on video here.
But that's not all. Perry serenaded the crew a bit while in space. Gayle King confirmed that the pop star sang "A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong while they were floating around.
That's got to be a pretty cool experience.
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