Katy Perry was taking last-minute astronaut lessons just before heading into space

Katy Perry was taking last-minute astronaut lessons just before she headed into space.

It’s official – Perry and the rest of her all-woman crew have touched down on Earth.

The Blue Origin space mission was a success, but how much did training did it take to get to this moment?

Usually, astronauts go through years of prep, but that wasn’t quite the case here.

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The training Katy Perry had to undertake before her trip to space

Katy Perry’s excursion to space is only the latest in a long series of headline grabbing celebrity events.

Admittedly, such stories are usually a little more grounded, if you pardon the pun.

Will Smith having a street named after him, or iShowSpeed riding in a flying car are both pretty cool, but come on.

Perry went to space – how do you top that?

Aerospace company Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos, was the one behind the mission, which lasted a little over 10 minutes.

Sharing the capsule with her was Bezos’s fiancée Lauren Sánchez, news anchor Gayle King, activist Amanda Nguyen, rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.

Usually, people heading up into space would need to undertake years of training.

But for Perry and her five space companions, they packed their preparation into a few days.

This included a focus on physical fitness, emergency protocols, and procedures for zero gravity.

None of the six women onboard were responsible for piloting the rocket, which was self-flying.

Once the flight was complete, the capsule returned to Earth with a parachute-assisted soft landing.

The rocket booster landed itself two miles from its launching point.

This was the first all-female spaceflight in over 60 years.

Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to take part in a spaceflight when she headed into space in 1963 aboard the Vostok 6.

What did the women say once they landed back on Earth?

As you might expect, it was an emotional moment for all the women when their capsule landed back on Earth.

Perry was seen to be kissing the ground when she disembarked.

It turned out that she’d taken a daisy onboard the capsule with her.

This is obviously a flower that holds a lot of significance for her – it’s the name of her daughter with Orlando Bloom, and she’d previously released a song called Daisies.

Speaking of the flower, she described it as ‘powerful’, ‘resilient’, and ‘strong’.

And many expected her to belt out a tune whilst in space – perhaps her own ET?

Instead she opted to do a cover of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong.

“I have covered that song in the past and obviously my higher self is always steering the ship.

“I think that it’s not about me or about me singing my songs, it was about a collective energy in there. It’s about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it,” she told Sky News.  

And for any Katy Cats – Perry fans – reading this, there’ll be a song about this incredible experience on a future album.

“It was the highest high,” she said.

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