Watch from launch to landing: All-female crew travels into space

The flight, carrying celebrities like Katy Perry and Gayle King, reached a height of about 60 miles (96.6km) above Earth.

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The flight lasted around 11 minutes and crossed the internationally recognised boundary of space.

The last all female crew was a Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova's. She completed a solo spaceflight in 1963.

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