William Shatner, famous for portraying Capt. James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, became the oldest person to travel in a rocket to space Wednesday as part of a Blue Origin flight.
“Not only is it different than what you thought, the impression I had, that I never expected to have, is the shooting up,” Shatner said upon landing after his flight.
Shatner, 90, broke the record, which was set during a July Blue Origin flight, by eight years, according to a report.
CAPT. KIRK IS HEADED BACK TO SPACE
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now & then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me,” Shatner tweeted after landing.
The mission launched from a site in West Texas, and Jeff Bezos, the founder of the aerospace company, drove Shatner and his team to the site, the report said.
After the team landed, Bezos greeted the group with a champagne shower, as shown in the livestream.
“This is a pinch-me moment for all of us to see Capt. James Tiberius Kirk go to space,” said Jacki Cortese, Blue Origin’s launch commentator.
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Shatner concluded that everybody in the world needs to see what he saw.
