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Jeff Bezos took a tumble into the dirt while eagerly trying to greet his fiancée and crew after their Blue Origin space mission.
The groundbreaking launch carried Sánchez and five other notable women—pop icon Katy Perry, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, documentary producer Kerianne Flynn, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyễn, and CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King—into space for an 11-minute journey.
The crew launched from Launch Site One in West Texas today at 10 a.m. EDT.
A livestream captured the comical moment when 61-year-old Jeff Bezos tripped and face-planted in the Texas desert while eagerly greeting the team upon landing.
Sánchez shared a heartfelt embrace with the rest of her family, who were waiting with Bezos at the landing site.
“I can’t put it into words. We got to see the Moon!” she said through tears after landing. “The Earth looked so quiet… I don’t think you could describe it.”
Lauren Sánchez’s journey followed Jeff Bezos’s praise of Blue Origin’s first space tourism mission, where he told her the experience—part of the company’s 11th human flight for its New Shepard program—would transform her life.
The crew reached an orbit about 62 miles above Earth, just beyond the Kármán Line, the recognized boundary of outer space.
For three minutes, the team reveled in weightless floating inside the capsule.
This flight marked the first all-female crew to venture into space since Valentina Tereshkova’s solo orbit for the Soviet Union in 1963, giving the group a view of the vast cosmos, the Moon, and Earth.
The couple announced their engagement in May 2023
Katy Perry vowed to “100 percent” write a song inspired by the journey.
The “Hot N Cold” singer, who reportedly sang “What a Wonderful Life” during the descent, shared, “I feel super connected to love.”
They push through cement, cracks, walls. They’re resilient, strong, and everywhere.”
She added, “Flowers, to me, are God’s smile, but they also remind us of our beautiful Earth. The magic is all around us, even in a simple daisy.”
Katy Perry shared that she was moved by a surprising coincidence before the launch.
She revealed, “My mom calls me ‘Tortoise,’ which is the name of the capsule, and ‘Feather,’ which was written on the front of the vessel.”
Billionaire tech CEO Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead NASA, also praised the crew on Twitter, stating, “Congratulations to Blue Origin and the NS-31 crew. Opening this incredible frontier—from the few to the many—is the dream.”
According to the New York Post, Blue Origin does not disclose how much spaceflights costs, but a seat on its first-ever flight went for $28 million in auction.
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