https://www.tmz.com/2021/09/24/william-shatner-going-space-jeff-bezos-blue-origin/

TMZ reports the 90-year-old Star Trek icon will be part of the second crew to take a space flight aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket ship.

90 years old and still making history! I salute him.

It's confirmed: William Shatner is heading to space next week on a Jeff Bezos Blue Origin rocket (https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/entertainment/william-shatner-blue-origin-space-mission/index.html)

"I've heard about space for a long time now," the 90-year-old Star Trek icon said in a press release of his short Oct. 12 trip to space. "I'm taking the opportunity to see it for myself. What a miracle."

At age 90, is William Shatner too old to go to space? (https://www.thedailybeast.com/william-shatner-will-ride-a-blue-origin-rocket-to-space-is-it-even-safe-for-him)

Shatner's Oct. 12 trip aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket won't be a classic journey into outer space since it'll be "suborbital." But the trip 66 miles above the Earth puts a lot of stress on the human body. ALSO: Stephen Colbert spoofs Shatner's space trip and meeting "giant testicle" Jeff Bezos (https://www.thewrap.com/colbert-imagines-captain-kirks-first-encounter-with-giant-testicle-jeff-bezos-video/).

William Shatner cracks up Anderson Cooper (https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-anderson-cooper-cant-stop-laughing-throughout-jovial-william-shatner-interview)

The CNN anchor couldn't stop laughing while interviewing the Star Trek icon about his journey next week to space aboard a Blue Origin spacecraft.

William Shatner doesn't like the narrative of him being the oldest person in space: "I’m bloody Captain Kirk, for God’s sake!" (https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/william-shatner-decries-narrative-of-his-space-trip-i-dont-want-to-be-known-as-the-oldest-guy-im-bloody-captain-kirk/)

“I don’t want to be known as the oldest guy who went to space — I’m bloody Captain Kirk, for God’s sake!” Shatner said during a New York Comic-Con panel ahead of his Blue Origin flight on Tuesday.

William Shatner tears up after becoming the oldest person to reach space (https://people.com/human-interest/william-shatner-tears-up-return-to-earth-after-historic-space-flight/)

The 90-year-old Star Trek icon successfully completed a suborbital trip to space (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU3EqZhzJ3g) today aboard a Blue Origin New Origin spacecraft. Lifelong Star Trek fan Jeff Bezos flew Shatner for free. "Everybody in the world needs to do this," said Shatner, who hugged Bezos after emerging from the capsule (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTfQVMH5SuI). "Everybody in the world needs to see." Shatner said the trip made him realize how precious life can be. "To see the blue color (of the sky) go rip by and now you're staring into blackness, that's the thing," he said. "The covering of blue, this sheet, this blanket, this comforter of blue that we have around us, we think, 'Oh, that's blue sky,' and then suddenly you shoot through it all as if you rip off a sheet while you're asleep, and you're looking into blackness. "You look down...there is mother Earth, comfort. And (up) there, is there death? I don't know. Is that the way death is? Whoop, and it's gone. Jeez. It was so moving. This experience, it's something unbelievable." Many Star Trek fans were excited (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/science/star-trek-captain-kirk-william-shatner.html) to see the Captain James T. Kirk actor actually go to space. "I think this is fantastic for the Star Trek mythos, to have the guy who really started it all to go into space," said Russ Haslage, who co-founded the fan organization The Federation, also known as the International Federation of Trekkers, with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in the 1980s. "He’s the guy who’s at the center of all of this. There wouldn’t be any of this without Captain Kirk.”