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Blue Origin Blasts 90-Year-Old ‘Captain Kirk’ Into Space

  • Launch comes after difficult summer for Bezos’ company
  • Actor Shatner describes flight experience as ‘unbelievable’
William Shatner Goes to Space on Blue Origin Rocket

Blue Origin launched its second crewed flight into suborbital space with a manifest including 90-year-old “Star Trek” actor William Shatner, who became the oldest person to blast off the planet.

The flight Wednesday came three months after Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos inaugurated the closely held company’s first flight with people, joined by three others including 82-year-old Wally Funk who was then the oldest person to travel into space. Bezos also shuttled the crew to the launch pad in a Rivian truck painted with Blue Origin’s logo.