William Shatner Poised To Go Where Some Have Gone Before

Above, William Shatner in his flight suit. Blue Origin photo.

In less than three hours from now, Star Trek actor William Shatner will be among a crew of four when Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin spacecraft lifts off from West Texas.

According to Yahoo! Finance:

VAN HORN, Texas, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Billionaire U.S. businessman Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is set for its second suborbital tourism flight on Wednesday, with actor William Shatner - who embodied the promise of space travel on the "Star Trek" TV series and films - among the four-person all-civilian crew poised to blast off in Texas.

Shatner, at age 90, is due to become the oldest person ever in space. He and his crewmates are scheduled for a 9 a.m. (1000 EDT/1530 GMT) takeoff aboard the 60-foot-tall (18.3 meters-tall) fully autonomous New Shepard spacecraft at Blue Origin's launch site about 20 miles (32 km) outside the rural west Texas town of Van Horn.

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