• Pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King are among six women who traveled aboard Blue Origin’s all-female, suborbital space tourism mission.

• The company’s New Shepard rocket lifted off from Blue Origin’s West Texas launch site around 9:30 a.m. ET Monday and landed safely about 10 minutes later.

• The flight soared well above the Kármán line, a point at 100 kilometers (62 miles) that is often used to define the altitude at which air space ends and outer space begins...

A crew of six women – Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist who will become the first Vietnamese woman to fly to space; the CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King; the pop star Katy Perry; film producer Kerianne Flynn; entrepreneur and former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe; and Sánchez, a journalist and philanthropist – will blast off on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket from the company’s launch site, 30 miles north of Van Horn, Texas, on an 11-minute, suborbital flight to the edge of space and back.