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Jeff Bezo’s spacecraft also carried film producer Kerianne Flynn and scientists Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen for a 10-minute, all-female flight before returning to Earth in Texas.

The first all-woman space crew since the 1960s blasted off on Monday aboard one of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s rockets. The team included singer Katy Perry, US entrepreneur Lauren Sanchez, TV presenter Gale King, film producer Kerianne Flynn and former NASA scientists Amanda Nguyen and Aisha Bowe.

With just hours before she’s the first pop star to be launched into space, the star has shown off where she’ll be strapped in.

Relive the return of NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore on the SpaceX Crew-9 mission as it happened.

After more than 280 days in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are back on solid ground.

This is the dramatic moment a SpaceX capsule docked at the International Space Station to rescue two astronauts stuck since June.

SpaceX has successfully launched the new crew to relieve two NASA astronauts stranded on the ISS after a delay earlier this week.

The liftoff would allow NASA’s Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore to return home as soon as Wednesday.

Two stranded US astronauts face a number of health risks during what will eventually become eight months in space, an expert has warned.