Star Trek legend William Shatner was set to go into space on Tuesday at the age of 90, but his flight has been delayed by a day. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin made that decision because strong winds are forecast for Tuesday in western Texas, where the rocket will be launched.
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‘Captain Kirk’ therefore has to wait an extra day before he can call himself the oldest man to ever have been in space. Blue Origin’s tourist flight will take him to the edge of the atmosphere, where Shatner will be weightless for a few minutes before returning to Earth.
It is the second space flight performed by Blue Origin. Bezos himself went on the first space flight in July. His traveling companions were his brother (making them the first brothers ever to be together in space), 82-year-old Wally Funk (currently the oldest human ever in space) and 18-year-old Dutchman Oliver Daemen (the youngest human ever in space). the space).
Shatner’s breakthrough came in the 1960s as Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the USS Enterprise spaceship, in the original Star Trek series. He returned to that role several times after that, including in the 1980s film series.
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