Nigeria, April 14 -- Pop superstar Katy Perry, CBS anchor Gayle King, and four other remarkable women safely returned to Earth after a suborbital journey aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Shepard rocket on Sunday.

The six-member, all-female crew blasted off from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas after 8:30 a.m. local time (14:30 BST). The flight lasted approximately 11 minutes. It soared more than 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the Earth, crossing the Karman line,which isthe internationally recognized boundary of space.

Joining Perry and King on this mission were:

This was Blue Origin's first-ever all-female spaceflight,and the first of its kind since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo mission in 1963.

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