Pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King were among six women who traveled aboard Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin’s all-female, suborbital space tourism mission, which lifted off Monday.

The Monday morning launch of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, was the first all-women spaceflight in more than 60 years.

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will fly with only women ...