As “Captain Kirk”, William Shatner became a “Star Trek” icon. Now the Canadian actor actually flew into space. The spaceship is provided by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Van Horn – The “Star Trek” icon William Shatner really took off into space for the first time. The 90-year-old Canadian actor took off on Wednesday – a little later than planned – on board a “New Shepard” space capsule from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos from the West Texas desert for a ten-minute excursion to all.
Shatner, who became famous above all for his role as “Captain Kirk” on the “Starship Enterprise”, is now the oldest person in space history to have ever traveled into space.
The former NASA engineer Chris Boshuizen, the entrepreneur Glen de Vries and the deputy head of Blue Origin, Audrey Powers, started together with Shatner. It is the second manned flight of the New Shepard capsule. The first in July, Bezos himself was on board, along with his brother Mark, an 82-year-old former US pilot and an 18-year-old Dutchman. dpa
