TEXAS — Six women — including a former NASA rocket scientist, a bioastronautics research scientist, journalist Gayle King and music superstar Katy Perry — became astronauts after taking flight in a Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch on Monday morning.

They made history as the first all-female space travelers in more than 60 years.

The six are part of the NS-31 mission, which took off at 9:30 a.m. ET from Launch Site One in West Texas, stated the Washington-state company.

They traveled beyond the Kármán line, the internationally established edge of space at 62 miles/100 kilometers.

While the entire trip only lasted about 11 minutes from liftoff to touchdown, this all-female crew made history becoming the first team of its kind in more than 60 years.

Blue Orgin’s New Shepard rocket will carry journalists King, Perry, Lauren Sanchez, film producer Kerianne Flynn, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and Amanda Nguyen who is a prominent civil rights activist and research scientist who worked on the last NASA space shuttle mission.

This was the first time that all six were in space.

Read the bios of these space travelers here.

“They're incredible storytellers. So, what I'm hoping for is this flight is not just transformative for them, but also for all of the people that they tell their story to,” said Sanchez, who is Bezos’ fiancée and is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and bestselling author, before the launch.

She is also the vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund.

Marc Hagle, who was on board with his wife on two previous New Shepard launches, shared with Spectrum News his thoughts on the future of space flight. 

This commercial space flight comes at a price.

According to an online form, reserving a seat requires a minimum deposit of $150,000.

Blue Origin has been flying tourists into space since 2021.

The last time there was an all-female space flight was in 1963 when Valentina Tereshkova did a solo flight on a Soviet spacecraft.