Pop star Katy Perry made headlines after kissing the ground upon her return from a Blue Origin space flight. The singer was among six women who embarked on the all-female mission to space on April 14.
Joining her on the Blue Origin Rocket include CBS Mornings host Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, filmmaker Kerianne Flynn, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez.
The aircraft departed from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 9:30 a.m. ET and soared 65 miles above the ground, taking around 11 minutes from takeoff to touchdown.
Before boarding the spacecraft, Perry and the crew rang the bell, with her sporting her dark hair in loose waves.
Although there was not much audio in the capsule, Perry and the women could be heard yelling with delight when they saw the moon up close and the Earth from above, as well as when the craft landed at approximately 9:41 a.m. ET.
The singer’s daughter was among the crowds of family, friends, and space aficionados in attendance at the launch.
Perry celebrated the mission’s success by kissing the ground after holding a flower in the air as she stepped out of the capsule in honor of her daughter.
She and her fellow passengers were the first all-female voyage since the solo journey of Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963. The launch was also Blue Origin’s New Shepard program’s eleventh human flight.
Reactions poured in as people took to social media to share their thoughts on her kissing the ground, with some expressing confusion.
katy perry went to space for like 4 minutes wtf is she kissing the ground for😭 pic.twitter.com/dU5Iy9gPmB
— kira 👾 (@kirawontmiss) April 14, 2025
Not her kissing the ground 😭 pic.twitter.com/mnWKbrP2MB
— Katy Perry Today (@todaykatyp) April 14, 2025
wdym katy perry was only up there for like 5 minutes and kissed the ground when she got back….. girl it takes me longer to go to the gas station than that i can't LMAOOO pic.twitter.com/HQTYHPb2XA
— izzy ◡̈ (@sabsnsweet) April 14, 2025
Katy Perry kissing the ground after 11 minutes in space, to be fair, I’ve considered doing the same after returning back from an equally long voyage to the Wetherspoons toilets.
— Sheena (@sarky_sheena) April 14, 2025
Katy Perry kissing the ground like she'd been stranded on the ISS for months or was drifting home on Apollo 13 is peak 2025.
— Chesty (@ChestyPullerGst) April 14, 2025
Katy Perry kissing the ground after going a couple of miles higher than an aeroplane for ten mins is sending me pic.twitter.com/VlJ46jUE2d
— kellyjackson88.bsky.social (@Kelly_Jackson88) April 15, 2025
Me liking all the tweets laughing at Katy Perry kissing the ground after returning from Space. pic.twitter.com/wsT0JqbETg
— rebels (@rebels231715) April 14, 2025
not y’all sooking over the fact katy perry went to space for not even 10 mins and she kissed the ground, who knows what could’ve happened?? y’all probs would’ve kissed the ground too if you went up there
— lottie (@xlottiefaiithx) April 15, 2025
The pop star has expressed her excitement for the incredible journey to her fans ever since the flight was revealed in February.
“If you had told me that I would be part of the first-ever all-female crew in space, I would have believed you,” she wrote on Instagram adding a heart and a wink emoji.
She was “honored,” Perry continued, to use the trip to “show all of the youngest & most vulnerable among us to reach for the stars, literally and figuratively.”
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