Actor William Shatner speaks on the “William Shatner” panel in the course of the seventeenth annual official Star Trek conference on the Rio Lodge & On line casino on August 4, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Science fiction will quickly turn out to be actuality, as William Shatner is scheduled to launch on the following crewed spaceflight of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.
The corporate plans to fly the Canadian actor, who famously performed Capt. Kirk within the authentic “Star Trek” tv sequence, as one of many passengers on the corporate’s New Shepard rocket.
The launch is deliberate for Oct. 12. Blue Origin’s vp of mission and flight operations, Audrey Powers, is becoming a member of the flight, with the crew of 4 rounded out by beforehand introduced members Planet Labs co-founder Chris Boshuizen and Medidata co-founder Glen de Vries.
Blue Origin will host a dwell webcast of the mission, known as NS-18, with protection set to start at 8 a.m. ET on Oct. 12.
William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk
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Shatner’s journey can be the second human spaceflight for Blue Origin’s tourism and analysis rocket New Shepard, which successfully launched Bezos, founder and govt chairman of Amazon, to area within the inaugural crew of 4 in July.
At 90, Shatner would turn out to be the oldest particular person to fly to area, topping aerospace pioneer Wally Funk — who, at 82, flew on Blue Origin’s first launch.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard crew (L-R) Oliver Daemen, Jeff Bezos, Wally Funk, and Mark Bezos pose for an image close to the booster after flying into area within the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket on July 20, 2021 in Van Horn, Texas. Mr. Bezos and the crew had been the primary human spaceflight for the corporate.
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A visit on Blue Origin’s New Shepard lasts about 10 minutes from liftoff to touchdown. The reusable rocket carries the capsule up previous the U.S. boundary of area at 80 kilometers (about 50 miles) altitude, with the spacecraft and crew floating in microgravity for a few minutes earlier than returning to land below a set of parachutes.
The New Shepard Blue Origin rocket lifts-off from the launch pad carrying Jeff Bezos alongside together with his brother Mark Bezos, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, and 82-year-old Wally Funk put together to launch on July 20, 2021 in Van Horn, Texas.
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