William Shatner is The Oldest Astronaut Ever
Hollywood Captain Kirk William Shatner, 90, launched into space on Wednesday in a convergence of science fiction and scientific reality and reached the final frontier aboard a ship
90 years old William Shatner, who became famous as Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek movie, just jumped on a suborbital spaceship that was flying over the edge of space before parachuting, making Shatner the oldest person to travel to space.
“That was different from everything you described,” Shatner was heard to say on the flight’s live feed shortly before landing.
His journey was not exactly like the interplanetary journeys William Shatner made during his acting career. The New Shepard flight took only ten minutes from take-off to landing, which gave the passengers about three minutes of weightlessness.
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The group was tied to a capsule on the 60-foot New Shepard rocket Wednesday morning after a series of wind-related delays. At 9:51 a.m. Central Time, the rocket fired its engines and exceeded the speed of sound, jumping the capsule over the Karman Line, which at 62 miles is a line that marks the beginning of space.
Shanter’s new record for the oldest human to fly into space surpasses the record set just three months ago by Wally Funk, 82, who was a former apprentice astronaut but was previously denied the opportunity to fly before being allowed to Bezos came on his July flight.
But Shatner’s flight comes amid a wave of headlines painting a picture of internal unrest at Blue Origin, including several senior executives leaving after Elon Musk lost a key NASA contract with SpaceX.
Blue Origin did not respond to requests for comment on the security allegations. have repeatedly stated that safety is their number one priority.
