William Shatner to launch into space on Blue Origin flight

“Star Trek” histrion William Shatner is headed to abstraction for existent adjacent week.

Blue Origin, a spaceflight institution founded by erstwhile Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, announced Monday that Shatner volition blast disconnected aboard 1 of its capsules astatine astir 9:30 a.m. ET connected Tuesday, Oct. 12.

The institution says Shatner volition alert connected committee New Shepard NS-18 alongside its Vice President of Mission & Flight Operations, Audrey Powers.

They volition articulation crewmates Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries for the flight, which is acceptable to assistance disconnected from “Launch Site One” successful occidental Texas.

“I’ve heard astir abstraction for a agelong clip now. I’m taking the accidental to spot it for myself. What a miracle,” said Shatner successful a Blue Origin property release.

Shatner is champion known for originating the relation of Captain Kirk successful 1966 for the TV bid “Star Trek,” a subject fabrication franchise acceptable successful space.

Blue Origin says Shatner has agelong wanted to question to abstraction and astatine 90 years old, he’ll go the oldest idiosyncratic to person flown to space.

This formation follows Blue Origin’s palmy archetypal quality formation connected July 20, which included Bezos and his brother, aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and Blue Origin’s archetypal customer, Oliver Daemen.