‘Captain Kirk’ to embark on real-life journey into space

  

William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in the “Star Trek” series, is set to embark on a real-life journey into space.

According to BBC News, Jeff Bezos’s space travel company Blue Origin has confirmed that Shatner would be blasting off from Texas on October 12th.

At the age of 90, he will become the oldest person to have flown into space.

Shatner has reportedly issued a statement saying “I’ve heard about space for a long time now. I’m taking the opportunity to see it for myself. What a miracle.”

He will join three others aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket for the company’s second human spaceflight.

Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon, joined the first crewed flight in July, along with his brother, an 82-year-old pioneer of the space race and an 18-year-old student.

As with the previous flight, the upcoming voyage is expected to last about 10 minutes and will take the crew just beyond the Karman Line, the most widely recognized boundary of space, which lies 100km above the Earth

Source 103fm.tt