William Shatner (Captain Kirk in Star Trek), 90, is launched into space as an astrotourist, along with Blue Origin’s vice president of flight operations, Audrey Powers, and entrepreneurs Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin New Shield capsule describes a short parabola, crossing, at its highest point, the Karman line at 100 km, ideally considered the threshold of space, and remaining in space for just over 4 minutes. This is Blue Origin’s second flight with a real crew, following the one on July 20, 2021, which included Jeff Bezos himself, his brother Mark, 82-year-old Wally Funk, and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen.
