'Star Trek' fame William Shatner to fly into space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Rocket

Star War's alum William Shatner is all set to join crew of Blue Origin’s next space flight on October 12. At age of 90, Shatner will become oldest person to fly into space. Amazon founder and multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos's aerospace company Blue Origin confirmed on Monday that Shatner will be joining three ors, two of m paying customers, aboard a Blue Origin capsule. Bezos himself h launched into orbit on one of company’s rockets earlier this year in July.

William Shatner joins crew of Blue Origin's next space flight

Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, Blue Origin, announced on Monday that William Shatner will blast off to space from West Texas on October 12. At age of 90, Shatner will become oldest person in space. He’ll join three or crew members and two of m are paying customers. It will be company’s second launch with a crew. Shatner in a statement given to AP said, "I’ve heard about space for a long time now. I’m taking opportunity to see it for myself. What a miracle." At age of 90, actor, known for his role a Captain Kirk will be oldest person to fly off into space. Shatner also took to his Twitter and expressed his excitement.

Shatner will be joining crew members Chris Boshuizen, co-founder of Earth observation company Planet Labs and Glen de Vries vice-chairperson for life sciences and healthcare at French software company Dassault Systèmes and co-founder of Medidata.  up-and-down space hop will last 10 minutes and reach no higher than about 66 miles (106 kilometres).

More about William Shatner

William Shatner has h a long, prolific career of over 60 plus years and has received numerous accoles for his performances. veteran actor also has a proficient career in music industry with 8 solo albums under his belt. After his stint on Star Trek, Shatner got a le role in a TV series as titular police officer in T. J. Hooker, which ran from 1982 to 1986. From 2004 until 2008, he played role of attorney Denny Crane both in final season of legal drama  Practice and in its spinoff series Boston Legal,  role later went on to earn Shatner two Emmy Awards.

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