Back in 2023, I reported that after Blue Origin turned science fiction into fact, launching William Shatner, Captain James T. Kirk of “Star Trek” fame, into suborbital space, it had planned its next private space launch featuring an all-female crew.

In a move that follows the lead of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Artemis program, the billionaire Jeff Bezos-headed firm organized a mission led by his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez.

Today, that mission, known as NS-31, was successfully executed.

Pop star Katy Perry and five other women safely returned to Earth after reaching space aboard Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket.

The singer was joined by Bezos’s fiancée Lauren Sánchez and CBS presenter Gayle King, who said a highlight of the flight was hearing Perry sing Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World”....