'Star Trek' actor William Shatner, 90, is scheduled to launch aboard a rocket and capsule developed by Blue Origin. If successful, the trip will make Shatner the oldest person to reach space.
More than 50 years after he debuted as the beloved Capt. James T. Kirk in the original series of"Star Trek," William Shatner is set to boldly go to the edge of space.
Shatner and three other crew members — Audrey Powers, Blue Origin’s vice president of mission and flight operations, and two paying customers, Glen de Vries and Chris Boshuizen — will ride Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and capsule to the edge of space. Liftoff is scheduled to occur at 10 a.m. ET and the flight is expected to last roughly 10 minutes.
“I’m going to see the vastness of space and the extraordinary miracle of our Earth and how fragile it is compared to the forces at work in the universe — that’s really what I’m looking for," he said.inaugural flight in JulyThe New Shepard rocket and capsule are designed for suborbital jaunts, which don't actually enter into orbit around Earth but rather fly to the edge of space, at an altitude of more than 65 miles, where passengers can experience around four minutes of weightlessness.
Shatner's expedition is the latest in what has been a recent flurry of space tourism flights. Nine days before Bezos flew to the edge of space, British billionaire, riding aboard a rocket-powered vehicle developed by his own space tourism company, Virgin Galactic.
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