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Picture MUST credit: Blue Origin Pop star Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez , the fiancée of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, amongst the six women in a space flight aboard the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin rocket . Blue Origin's 11th human flight, NS-31, lifted off from Site One in West Texas for the trip in The six women are: former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, 38; bioastronautics researcher and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, 38; TV journalist Gayle King, 70, Pop star Perry , 40, film producer Kerianne Flynn , 35, and journalist Sánchez, 55. Jeff Bezos was there to see the woman safely into their New Shepard capsule before take-off. The woman experienced four minutes of weightlessness. During the roughly 10-minute flight, the crew flew just above the Kármán line, an invisible boundary at an altitude of 62 miles / 100 km widely accepted as the edge of space, before the capsule descended under parachutes and landed in the Texas desert. Picture supplied by JLPPA