'Earth looked so quiet': All-female crew, including Katy Perry, return after Blue Origin space flight | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Epaper
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Banking
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Sunday
May 18, 2025

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Epaper
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Banking
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2025
'Earth looked so quiet': All-female crew, including Katy Perry, return after Blue Origin space flight

World+Biz

TBS Report 
14 April, 2025, 08:55 pm
Last modified: 14 April, 2025, 09:04 pm

Related News

  • Fully support reasonable demands to protect women’s rights, but will stand against 'destructive ideas like LGBTQ, homosexuality': Sarjis
  • 'We will not be silenced': Women unite in colourful protest for equity, dignity
  • 67,000 women migrants, mostly tortured, return home in 6 years: BRAC
  • No alternative to standing beside women to prevent repression: Adviser Sharmeen
  • Open tendering complexity limits women's role in public procurement: Survey

'Earth looked so quiet': All-female crew, including Katy Perry, return after Blue Origin space flight

After the crew’s 11-minute spaceflight, Katy Perry said she might record song about her experience

TBS Report 
14 April, 2025, 08:55 pm
Last modified: 14 April, 2025, 09:04 pm
An all-female crew, including pop star Katy Perry, returned to Earth today after making a space flight on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket. Photo: Collected
An all-female crew, including pop star Katy Perry, returned to Earth today after making a space flight on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket. Photo: Collected

An all-female crew, including pop star Katy Perry, returned to Earth today after making a space flight on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket.

The crew shared a special moment as they entered space, said Rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, reports BBC. 

After landing, film producer Kerianne Flynn said she had almost no words to describe what happened.

The Business Standard Google News Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel

Civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen said she was "so grateful". 

Journalist Lauren Sánchez said, "Earth looked so quiet."

The Blue Origin is an autonomous rocket which doesn't need a pilot.

Speaking to BBC, after the crew's 11-minute spaceflight, Katy Perry said she might record song about her experience.

"The highest high. It is a surrender to the unknown," Perry said after landing back on Earth.

"I couldn't recommend this experience more."

Asked if she will record a song about her experience she said "100%" and that she felt "really connected to that strong, divine feminine right now".

The pop star chose to sing a rendition of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" while in the capsule. 

When asked about the importance of her song choice, she said it was "about a collective energy, making space for future women, it's about wonderful world we see out there".

Her daughter, Daisy, was there to see her take part in the mission and was heard saying "mummy, mummy" as she went up.

The singer said the experience came "second to being a mum", which is also why it was a hard decision to take the mission on.

Rocket scientist Aisha Bowe said, "I will never be the same," adding that earth is "beautiful" from up above. 

"There are no boundaries, there's no border, there's just earth." 

Bowe said that she could "feel the energy in the capsule" and said the all-female crew had a moment where they all just looked at each when they reached space. 

She is told her 92-year-old grandfather, who was watching from the ground, was worried about her but mentioned that Oprah had given him a reassuring squeeze.

Gayle King said she "still can't accept" that she's an astronaut.

"It's oddly quiet when you get up there. It's really quiet and peaceful and you look down at the planet and think, 'That's where we came from.'

"For me, it's such a reminder about how we need to do better, be better," she added.

She also said her highlight of the flight was hearing Katie Perry sing a rendition of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World".

King added that people were asking Perry to sing her own hits like "Firework" and "Roar" before the flight, but that she had told then "it's not about me, I wanted to talk about the world". 

"I have almost no words," Kerianne Flynn said.

"It was the most incredible experience of my life to be up there to see such vast darkness in space", she added.

Flynn shared a story of her son telling his friends that she was going up to space and they told him, "Mums don't go to space".

"This mum went to space," she said.

Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist, said she was "so grateful to everyone who made it a reality". 

"I'm so proud of this crew," Lauren Sánchez said. 

"I can't put it into words…I looked out of the window and we got to see the moon." 

"Earth looked so quiet," she said, adding that it was not what she expected. 

"It was quiet, but really alive." 

Sánchez said there was a feeling of joy and camaraderie among the women in space.

Top News

Space Flight / Blue Origin space flight / women / Katy Perry

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Protesters block Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka on 18 May 2025. Photo: Traffic Alert group on Facebook
    Shammo murder: Chatradal activists block Shahbag intersection demanding justice
  • Protesters locked the main gate of Nagar Bhaban demanding swearing in of Ishraque Hossain as mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation on 18 May 2025. Photo: TBS
    Ishraque's mayoral oath: Protesters announce Nagar Bhaban blockade for tomorrow
  • Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin speaks to reporters at the Secretariat on 18 May 2025. Photo: PID
    Bangladesh-India trade to continue in consumers' interest: Commerce adviser

MOST VIEWED

  • Screenshot of Google Maps showing the distance between Bhola and Barishal
    Govt to build longest bridge to link Bhola, Barishal
  • Efforts to recover Dhaka’s encroached, terminally degraded canals are not new. Photo: TBS
    Dhaka's 220km canals to be revived within this year: Dhaka North
  • Infograph: TBS
    How Bangladeshi workers lost $1.3b in remittance fees, exchange rate volatility in 2024
  • Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus speaking after inaugurating the Microcredit Regulatory Authority building in the capital on 17 May 2025. Photo: CA Press Wing
    CA Yunus for establishing dedicated 'Microcredit Bank'
  • File Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin/TBS
    Authorities to allow 19 cattle markets in capital
  • Representational image. Photo: TBS
    India halts import of Bangladeshi garments, processed foods via land ports

Related News

  • Fully support reasonable demands to protect women’s rights, but will stand against 'destructive ideas like LGBTQ, homosexuality': Sarjis
  • 'We will not be silenced': Women unite in colourful protest for equity, dignity
  • 67,000 women migrants, mostly tortured, return home in 6 years: BRAC
  • No alternative to standing beside women to prevent repression: Adviser Sharmeen
  • Open tendering complexity limits women's role in public procurement: Survey

Features

PHOTO: Collected

Helmet Hunt: Top 5 half-face helmets that meet international safety standards

1h | Wheels
Photo: Collected

Simple accessories to extend the life of your luggage

1h | Brands
With a growing population, the main areas of Rajshahi city are now often clogged with traffic. Photo: Mahmud Jami

Once a ‘green city’, Rajshahi now struggling to breathe

22h | Panorama
Illustration: TBS

Cassettes, cards, and a contactless future: NFC’s expanding role in Bangladesh

1d | Panorama

More Videos from TBS

What is Jamaat's proposal on decentralization of power?

What is Jamaat's proposal on decentralization of power?

1h | TBS Today
Putin sets conditions before meeting with Zelensky

Putin sets conditions before meeting with Zelensky

2h | TBS World
Trump lies by coming to Gulf region, talks of peace: Khamenei

Trump lies by coming to Gulf region, talks of peace: Khamenei

3h | TBS World
What did Jamaat propose to the Consensus Commission?

What did Jamaat propose to the Consensus Commission?

3h | TBS Today
EMAIL US
contact@tbsnews.net
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Advertisement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2025
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net