He ought to be very knowledgeable up there. “Captain Kirk” aka William Shatner flies into space. But not with the “Enterprise”, but with Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin.
Van Horn – After decades as “Captain Kirk”, “Star Trek” actor William Shatner is supposed to really fly into space for the first time. The 90-year-old Canadian will be part of the next crew of space tourists, announced the space company Blue Origin of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Monday.
“I’ve been hearing about space for a long time. Now I take the chance to see it for myself. What a miracle, ”Shatner was quoted as saying.
The flight is scheduled for October 12th. In addition to Shatner, the former NASA engineer Chris Boshuizen, the entrepreneur Glen de Vries and the deputy head of Blue Origin, Audrey Powers, are also expected to fly.
In July, Bezos and his brother Mark, an 82-year-old former US pilot and an 18-year-old Dutchman, went on a ten-minute space excursion on board the spacecraft “New Shepard” of his company Blue Origin. A few days earlier, another billionaire, the British Richard Branson, had tested his own spaceship. dpa
