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Katy Perry and five other women have been blasted into space on an all-female rocket launch.
Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’s partner, was also sent to space on board the rocket made by Blue Origin, the Amazon’s founder’s private space company.
It is the first mission to space entirely crewed by women for more than six decades.
Watched by celebrities including Khloe Kardashian, Oprah and Bezos himself, the six were launched from Blue Origin’s launchpad in West Texas.
Oprah visibly wept as her best friend, TV presenter Gayle King, flew at almost 2,000 miles per hour off the Earth and experienced zero gravity. Inside the capsule, the new astronauts could be heard exclaiming at their view of the Moon and the experience of floating around the capsule.
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