In 2021, Blue Origin completed its first manned spaceflight. Jeff Bezos was on board, making for an emotional viewing for his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez.

"They were cracking jokes in the capsule, while I'm literally crying, holding his mother," Sánchez told Vogue's Chloe Malle about the launch. Vogue ran a profile on Sánchez on Monday.

Sánchez and Bezos announced their engagement in May. Their connection first entered the public eye after the National Enquirer reported on their relationship amid Bezos' divorce from MacKenzie Scott in 2019.

Accompanying Bezos on his 2021 flight were his brother, Mark; Oliver Daemen, a Dutch teenager and Blue Origin's first-ever paying customer; and Wally Funk, an aviator who'd been denied the chance to go to space in the 1960s because of her gender.

Bezos told Vogue that seeing his entire family come out to wish him and his brother goodbye before the rocket launch was a profound moment.

"You get to see how loved you are by so many people," Bezos said.

Before the launch, Sánchez commissioned silver feather necklaces for the crew, Vogue reported. They were engraved with Blue Origin's motto "Gradatim Ferociter" — Latin for "step by step, ferociously." The necklaces also came with custom baseball caps with the phrase "Love you to space and back" — Sánchez and Bezos' favorite phrase — embroidered in her handwriting.

Passengers on the Blue Origin flight experienced about three minutes of weightlessness after their rocket crossed the Kármán Line, a proposed boundary 62 miles above sea level that some experts say is where space begins.

In January, Sánchez told The Wall Street Journal she was planning on heading into space on a Blue Origin rocket alongside a crew of five other women by early 2024.