On Monday morning, a group of women went where most had never passed before: space.
The pop star, along with CBS MORNINGS co-amfishing Gayle KingEx -ancorge and promise of news to Jeff Bezos Lauren Sánchez, a former NASA rocket scientist, Aisha Bowe, a bioastronautica researcher Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn, traveled to the space of a ship developed by Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin, Blue, Blue Origin, Blue Origin, Blue Origin, Blue Origin, Blue Origin, Blue Origin, News NBC reported.
Here is everything about his history flight and why achievement means so much for Bowe and his family.
Katy Perry described the journey as second to convert to Mother
Perry and the rest of its all -stool flight crew, the first of its kind since 1963, took off on Monday at 9:30 am in the Blue Laboration Place Origin A Van Horn, Texas. The new Shepard rocket was used on the flight and accelerated more than three times the speed of sound. Named Alan Shepard, the first North -American in Space, the boat is designed to operate in a suborbital space without a present pilot.
The trip was scheduled to last about 10 minutes and took its passengers just above an invisible demarcation on the edge of the space known as the Kármán line, which is at an altitude of 62 miles. After reaching the line, passengers experienced weight weight moments before returning to the Texas desert through parachute.
“I feel super connected to love,” Perry said after returning safely to Earth, adding that the experience was only second to convert to Mother, The tutor reported.
Bowe’s experience on the trip reminded him of the community of life on Earth.
“There are no boundaries, there are no borders, there is only land,” he said it was on the banks of space.
He explained the time when “they got up there and outside our seats, we all looked at each other.”
“There was this moment, and I can’t wait for everyone to see in the video, among us and it’s beautiful, so beautiful,” he said.
Aisha Bowe honored his late father taking his star to the trip
Bowe told Bowning Beyond’s Earth, said Bowe Elle She had prepared for the opportunity to go to space all her career, but never thought it would happen.
“He was afraid to do it,” he told the departure. “I was afraid to even dream -and I started to say -Me to myself, Do you know what, Aisha? Why are you afraid of the only thing you’ve expected all your life? Just do it. And so when I received the call, I realized that it was not “no” at that moment, it was not “right now”, and now is the time. “
Bowe also opened to become the first person of the Bahamian heritage to fly to the space and the illusion that was sharing the achievement with his grandfather. After the flight, Bowe said that the 92 -year -old was nervous seeing his journey and that “Oprah squeezed him” for comfort.
In addition to his grandfather, Bowe planned to share the achievement with another family member. He told ELLE that he shared the dream with his late father, who recently passed, and “came from the Bahamas to study in the United States because he wanted to work for NASA.”
“When my father learned that he was flying with blue origin, he sent me a text message and said,” I’m so proud of you. “He said,” All the people who came in front of me are proud of you, and all the people who come after me are proud of you.
After his return, The Guardian reported that he offered advice to children who saw: “Dream, plan it, and go to do it.
