Star Trek’s Captain Kirk William Shatner has become the oldest person to go to space aboard Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin capsule. Blue Origin made its second touristic flight into space about 3 months later. The New Shepard rocket developed by the Blue Origin company was launched from the state of Texas in the USA and sent a crew of 4, including 90-year-old actor William Shatner. Shatner was accompanied on the flight by Blue Origin Vice President Audrey Powers, Planet Labs Co-Founder Chris Boshuizen and Medidata CEO Glen de Vries.
During the journey, which lasted about 11 minutes, the spacecraft ascended at an altitude of 106 kilometers from the earth, while the passengers experienced the zero-gravity environment for about 3 minutes. The capsule carrying Kirk and his crew and the New Shepard rocket successfully returned to Earth.