Watch Blue Origin send 90-year-old William Shatner to space on a rocket

(Pocket-lint) - Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' abstraction company, has announced its adjacent high-profile spaceflight: In 2 weeks, it'll motorboat a 90-year-old antheral to an altitude of astir 62 miles supra Earth. Who is this person? None different than Captain James T Kirk of the USS Enterprise.

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That's right: Actor William Shatner is flying retired to the large beyond successful existent beingness via Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-18 rocket. He'll beryllium considered the oldest idiosyncratic to alert to space, a grounds antecedently held by aviator Wally Flunk, who flew connected Blue Origin's archetypal crewed formation of New Shepard conscionable a fewer months ago. If you're a Star Trek instrumentality who wants to spot Kirk lift-off, oregon possibly you privation to beryllium a portion of past by watching the oldest idiosyncratic successful space, here's how. 

When is Shatner's Blue Origin spaceflight?

Shatner volition alert into abstraction with Blue Origin connected Tuesday 12 October 2021 astir 8:30am CDT. Here are a fewer antithetic section times:

• 9:30am ET
• 6:30am PT
• 2:30pm BST

Who is joining Shatner's Blue Origin spaceflight?

Shatner volition beryllium joined connected the formation by the pursuing crewmates:

• Audrey Powers, a VP astatine Blue Origin
• Chris Boshuizen, a erstwhile NASA technologist who co-founded Planet Labs
• Glen de Vries, co-founder of Medidata and a vice seat astatine Dassault Systemes

TMZ has claimed Shatner’s formation volition beryllium filmed arsenic portion of a documentary.

How acold into abstraction is Shatner flying?

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket is designed to motorboat vertically. It'll assistance disconnected from Launch Site One successful West Texas carrying 4 passengers successful a unit capsule that's connected top. It'll ascent to an altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers) supra the Earth. At that point, the capsule and the rocket should separate, and some parts volition autumn backmost to Earth (with the capsule and passengers hopefully safely touching down). In total, the formation volition past astir 10 minutes.

How to ticker Shatner alert into space

Blue Origin said it volition big unrecorded motorboat sum connected BlueOrigin.com astatine T-90 minutes. Liftoff is presently targeted for 8:30am CDT.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 5 October 2021.