To commemorate a groundbreaking flight, the all-female crew of Blue Origin ’s latest mission celebrated with a time-honored space tradition: ringing the mission bell.
A video that has since gone viral on X captures the emotional scene, showing the six female crew members, Jeff Bezos , and others involved in the launch taking turns ringing a ceremonial bell. The clip has already amassed over 1.3 million views, drawing global attention not only to the moment itself but to the historic mission it followed.
One user commented, “Let's go, America.” A second user wrote, “Space tourism: It only took 10 minutes to fly 62 miles or 100 kilometers to the edge of space & back.”
A third user perked, “Loved every second of this. I hope young girls around the world are inspired.”
The mission, dubbed NS-31, was operated by Jeff Bezos' aerospace company Blue Origin and launched from Launch Site One in West Texas at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Monday. It marked the first all-female spaceflight since 1963, when cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
This time, the journey was short but powerful. The six-person crew—featuring pop star Katy Perry , journalist Gayle King , and Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sánchez, among others—soared aboard the New Shepard launch vehicle for a 10-minute and 21-second suborbital trip that took them just above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space 62 miles above Earth.
Tens of thousands watched the Blue Origin livestream, while family and celebrity supporters, including Oprah Winfrey, observed in person. Inside the capsule, passengers experienced several minutes of zero gravity, marveling aloud at the moon and the view of Earth before parachuting back to a safe landing in a West Texas valley.
Upon return, emotional scenes unfolded: some of the crew emerged with tears in their eyes, fists raised in triumph. Both Perry and King dropped to their knees to touch the ground, overwhelmed by the journey.
"It's oddly quiet when you get up there," Gayle King later shared. "It's really quiet and peaceful, and you look down on the planet and think: That's where we came from? To me it's such a reminder about how we need to do better, be better."
King also revealed that Perry softly sang a few lines of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" while in space—a moment of unity and awe shared among the crew.
"I think that it's not about me, it's not about singing my songs, it's about the collective energy in there," Perry said afterward. "It's about making space for future women, and taking up space and belonging, and it's about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth."
A video that has since gone viral on X captures the emotional scene, showing the six female crew members, Jeff Bezos , and others involved in the launch taking turns ringing a ceremonial bell. The clip has already amassed over 1.3 million views, drawing global attention not only to the moment itself but to the historic mission it followed.
One user commented, “Let's go, America.” A second user wrote, “Space tourism: It only took 10 minutes to fly 62 miles or 100 kilometers to the edge of space & back.”
A third user perked, “Loved every second of this. I hope young girls around the world are inspired.”
The mission, dubbed NS-31, was operated by Jeff Bezos' aerospace company Blue Origin and launched from Launch Site One in West Texas at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Monday. It marked the first all-female spaceflight since 1963, when cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
This time, the journey was short but powerful. The six-person crew—featuring pop star Katy Perry , journalist Gayle King , and Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sánchez, among others—soared aboard the New Shepard launch vehicle for a 10-minute and 21-second suborbital trip that took them just above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space 62 miles above Earth.
Tens of thousands watched the Blue Origin livestream, while family and celebrity supporters, including Oprah Winfrey, observed in person. Inside the capsule, passengers experienced several minutes of zero gravity, marveling aloud at the moon and the view of Earth before parachuting back to a safe landing in a West Texas valley.
Upon return, emotional scenes unfolded: some of the crew emerged with tears in their eyes, fists raised in triumph. Both Perry and King dropped to their knees to touch the ground, overwhelmed by the journey.
"It's oddly quiet when you get up there," Gayle King later shared. "It's really quiet and peaceful, and you look down on the planet and think: That's where we came from? To me it's such a reminder about how we need to do better, be better."
King also revealed that Perry softly sang a few lines of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" while in space—a moment of unity and awe shared among the crew.
"I think that it's not about me, it's not about singing my songs, it's about the collective energy in there," Perry said afterward. "It's about making space for future women, and taking up space and belonging, and it's about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth."
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