'What a wonderful world': Katy Perry sings in joy as all-woman Blue Origin space flight returns to Earth

Pop star Katy Perry and five other women made history on Monday, as the first all-female crew in over 60 years went into space. They flew on Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission.

The 11-minute flight took off from West Texas and returned safely after reaching the edge of space.

The crew were seen enjoying a few moments of weightlessness in the zero gravity of space. A video from Blue Origin showed the women feeling “weightless and limitless” during the trip, which later went viral on social media.

Along with Perry on the six-member crew were Lauren Sanchez (Jeff Bezos’s fiancée), CBS host Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, scientist and activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket reached an altitude of 107 kilometres, just past the Kármán line, the recognised edge of space, before returning to Earth.

Perry sings What a Wonderful World

After experiencing weightlessness, the crew got back in their seats while Perry sang Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World.

She held a daisy, a flower she brought along in honour of her daughter, Daisy.

“I feel super connected to love,” Perry said after the landing.

This was the first time in the history of the United States that all seats on a spaceflight were occupied by women.

In the 64 years since human spaceflight began, the only other all-female mission was in 1963, when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

Blue Origin has not yet disclosed the cost of the flight or who paid for the expenses.