That's what I'm interested in seeing."īoshuizen and de Vries paid undisclosed sums for their seats aboard the New Shepard, but Shatner was an invited guest of Blue Origin. "I want to have a perspective that hasn't been shown to me before. "I want to see space, I want to see the Earth, I want to see what we need to do to save Earth," Shatner told CBS Mornings' Gayle King before launch. The flight marked only the second crewed launch of a New Shepard capsule since Bezos, his brother Mark, 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk and Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen took off July 20 on the company's first such flight.ĭaemen, then 18, holds the record for youngest person to fly in space, but Shatner eclipsed Funk's record by eight years and John Glenn's mark before that by 13. So to fly with a true ambassador for what we can become on this planet, I think it's fantastic." Kirk on Star Trek and that amazing future. Said Boshuizen: "I can't think of a better ambassador for the future of humanity than his character James T. "Scared little Billy, frightened Bill," Shatner joked. But we went to space with our friend Bill." Speaking with reporters at the base of their booster after the flight, de Vries said flying with Captain Kirk was "the ultimate manifestation of science fiction becoming science. "I don't want to lose it."įLYING HIGH: Video from inside the Blue Origin spacecraft shows William Shatner and the crew expressing amazement as they floated through the air and looked down on Earth from space. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now," he said. "I'm so filled with emotion about what just happened. He said he was overwhelmed, and that Bezos has given him the most profound experience he can imagine. "This experience is something unbelievable." The actor grew emotional and was occasionally at a loss for words describing the flight to the man who made it possible. Shatner cautiously made his way down a few short steps to the ground and was warmly embraced by Bezos. Within minutes, Bezos and Blue Origin recovery crews were on the scene to open the spacecraft's hatch and welcome Shatner, Australian entrepreneur Chris Boshuizen, microbiologist Glen de Vries and Blue Origin executive Audrey Powers back to Earth. William Shatner after launching to space: "I hope I never recover from this".Over the course of 10 minutes and 17 seconds, Shatner and three crewmates took off atop a hydrogen-fueled rocket, climbed to edge of space 65.8 miles up and enjoyed three to four minutes of weightlessness, along with spectacular views of Earth, before plunging back to a gentle parachute-assisted touchdown. William Shatner, the 90-year-old veteran of countless imaginary space voyages playing Star Trek's Captain Kirk, blasted off for real Wednesday, becoming the oldest person to reach the final frontier in a PR bonanza for Jeff Bezos and his rocket company Blue Origin.
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