Ninety-year-old William Shatner, who gained fame portraying Captain Kirk on the original"Star Trek," just hitched a ride aboard a suborbital spacecraft that grazed the edge of outer space before parachuting to a landing, making Shatner the oldest person ever to travel to space.
Shatner took off aboard a New Shepard spacecraft — the one developed by Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, and the same vehicle that took Bezos himself to space this summer — just before 10:50 a.m. ET from Blue Origin’s West Texas launch site. Bezos, a lifelong"Star Trek" fan, flew Shatner as a comped guest. With him were three crewmates: Chris Boshuizen, a co-founder of satellite company Planet Labs, and software executive Glen de Vries, who are both paying customers, and Audrey Powers, Blue Origin's vice president of mission and flight operations.
The trip took just 10 minutes from takeoff to landing. The crew experienced about three minutes of weightlessness at the top of their flight path before their capsule deployed parachutes to slow their descent and touched back down near their Texas launch site. Shanter's new record as the oldest person to fly to space one-ups the record set just three months ago by 82-year-old Wally Funk, who was previously denied the opportunity to fly by NASA in the 1960s before she joined Bezos on his July flight.
Sure, everybody has $250,000 laying around to literally burn
Everyone in The World don't have The Millions of Dollars to hang with Shatner and Rich Tax Evaders.
Sure WilliamShatner, because we all have millions to waste and a billionaire buddy like JeffBezos looking for a positive publicity stunt. Reconnect with reality, Kirk. Your statement was the 21st century equivalent of 'let them eat cake.'
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Everybody in this world needs to have food on the table. That should be the priority
Everybody in the world needs to donate books like Dolly Parton.
Here's an idea. When these would be space tourists have explored 90% of the planet we actually live on, done something useful to save it THEN and only then can they jump on a rocket for the view.
Everyone needs to eat
The vast majority of Americans can't afford vacations in their own country let alone travel to space...
There isn’t enough fuel on the planet for everyone to do that.
Maybe if it was a cheap ticket then Yeah.
Many people in the world would prefer to be able to eat every day.
Tell me you are a benefactor of wealth inequality without telling me.....uh.....something something capitalism
He spent money, and created jobs and business opportunities. Really a good thing.
Shatner says this but with a deeper meaning than just those quoted words. He wishes we ALL could see the Earth from that vantage. The BEAUTY of our planet! MAYBE we would appreciate it better and more want to protect it!
Brave man
I’m 4,829,619,043 on the list
Giving benefit of doubt - probably meant to say “hope everybody in this world can do this”
Everyone in the world needs a covid vaccine.
Lol... if he was from a country called Liberia where we dig hole to cover hole, he won’t even be dreaming about traveling to space.
I would settle for being able to afford to pay my mortgage.....
An appalling waste of resources. Society's wealth should be used to help everybody, not just the elites.
Have u gone senile Willy?...how many people do u think have a $250k - $500K laying around....Always thought u were over rated as an actor...nothing has changed....shatnerinspace
Yeah but I’m skint so
You wanna pay for my flight, WilliamShatner ?
I would love to do it but i would rather to pay with dogecoin 😍
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