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#KatyPerry, #GayleKing and philanthropist and #JeffBezos’ fiancée #LaurenSánchez have officially made interstellar history. The three public figures along with three other female astronauts launched into space on Monday on a #BlueOrigin rocket. This mission marks the first all-female spaceflight since 1963 when #ValentinaTereshkova of the former Soviet Union became the first woman to take a solo mission into space. The other members of the flight included former NASA rocket scientist #AishaBowe, bioastronautics research scientist and civil rights activist #AmandaNguyen and filmmaker #KerianneFlynn. Altogether, the flight lasted about 10 minutes and 30 seconds. The crew could be heard over the livestream cheering and reacting to seeing the moon. The live feed started to glitch around five minutes in with 305,000 viewers. Though it didn’t appear on the live stream, Perry did make good on her promise to sing in space, singing “What a Wonderful World” when the astronauts returned to thei...

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