April 26, 2024

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William Shatner, 90, is headed to space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin mission

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin declared Monday actor William Shatner, 90, will be on the upcoming Blue Origin flight together with Audrey Powers, Blue Origin’s vice president of mission and flight functions, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries.
William Shatner and Audrey Powers.

“I have listened to about place for a very long time now,” Shatner said in a press release. “I am taking the opportunity to see it for myself. What a wonder.”

And it has been a very long time coming.

Shatner has been pretending to are living in house considering that the 1960s, when he played Captain James T. Kirk on the hit television series “Star Trek.” He went on to star in 7 “Star Trek” movies.

He is also the host and govt producer of “The UnXplained” on The Historical past Channel, which explores the inexplicable, which include aliens.

The announcement arrives less than a week just after present and former personnel at Blue Origin co-signed an essay talking out from what they explain as a harmful office, which Blue Origin denies.

The New Shepard NS-18 flight will lift off Oct 12.

The journey will just take 11 minutes and soar earlier the Kármán Line, the internationally identified boundary of place.