Tuesday marks one year since Blue Origin’s first all-women crew went to space

VAN HORN, Texas (CBS, KYMA) - Tuesday marks one year since Blue Origin's first all-women flight crew shot for the sky in West Texas, blasting off on a journey 62 miles above Earth's surface to the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.

The space launch window for the NS-31 mission, which marked the 11th human flight of Jeff Bezos' New Shepard program, was scheduled to open at 9:30 a.m. Eastern.

Gayle King was joined by pop superstar Katy Perry, journalist and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, film producer Kerianne Flynn, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen.

Bowe was the first Bahamian and Nguyen the first Vietnamese and Southeast Asian woman in space.