Katy Perry Blasts into Space with All-Women Crew on Blue Origin Rocket
Trip set to last around 10 minutes
Singer Katy Perry blasted off as part of an all-women crew set to touch the edge of space in a suborbital flight Monday, a livestream from Blue Origin showed.
Perry and five other women took off in a New Shepard rocket shortly after 8:30 a.m. (1330 GMT) from western Texas.
They are to soar more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth -- crossing the Karman line, the boundary of space -- before returning in a trip set to last around 10 minutes.
