Gayle King Completes 1st Trip to Space

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It may have been her most memorable kiss ever. Gayle King happily kissed the ground upon her return to Earth after flying to the cusp of space aboard a Blue Origin flight.

King was among the six members of Blue Origin’s first all-female crew, which lifted off from Texas on Monday morning. The CBS Morning co-host’s fellow crew members included Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, and Kerianne Flynn.

King was joined in Texas by her family, her best friend Oprah Winfrey, and her CBS Mornings co-hosts, Nate Burleson and Vlad Duthiers, who anchored special coverage of the historic mission.

The flight lasted approximately 12 minutes and took passengers to the edge of outer space, where they experienced weightlessness for a few moments.

Speaking to Charrisa Thompson afterwards, King described her experience in space, saying: “It’s oddly quiet when you get up there. It is really quiet and peaceful, and you look down at the planet and think, ‘That’s where we come from?’”

King’s brief trip to space inspired no small amount of introspection. She called on Earth dwellers to “to do better, be better,” adding: “It’s so nasty and so vitriolic nowadays.”

“I’ll never, ever, ever forget it,” she told Thompson of her experience.

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