Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin introduced Monday actor William Shatner, 90, will likely be on the subsequent Blue Origin flight alongside Audrey Powers, Blue Origin’s vp of mission and flight operations, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries.
“I’ve heard about house for a very long time now,” Shatner mentioned in a press launch. “I am taking the chance to see it for myself. What a miracle.”
And it has been a very long time coming.
Shatner has been pretending to stay in house because the Nineteen Sixties, when he performed Captain James T. Kirk on the hit tv collection “Star Trek.” He went on to star in seven “Star Trek” movies.
He is additionally the host and government producer of “The UnXplained” on The Historical past Channel, which explores the inexplicable, together with aliens.
The announcement comes lower than per week after present and former staff at Blue Origin co-signed an essay talking out towards what they describe as a toxic workplace, which Blue Origin denies.
The New Shepard NS-18 flight will elevate off October 12.
The journey will take 11 minutes and soar previous the Kármán Line, the internationally acknowledged boundary of house.
