Star Trek actor William Shatner, 90, becomes oldest person in space
The Straits Times|October 14, 2021
VAN HORN (Texas) • Actor William Shatner soared aboard a Blue Origin rocketship on a suborbital trip and landed in the Texas desert yesterday to become – at the age of 90 – the oldest person in space, as US billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos’ company carried out its second tourist flight.
Star Trek actor William Shatner, 90, becomes oldest person in space

Mr Shatner was one of four passengers to journey to the edge of space aboard the white fully autonomous 18.3m-tall New Shepard spacecraft, which took off from Blue Origin’s launch site about 32km outside the rural west Texas town of Van Horn.

The four astronauts experienced about three to four minutes of weightlessness and travelled above the internationally recognised boundary of space known as the Karman Line, about 100km above Earth.

The crew capsule returned to the Texas desert under parachutes, raising a cloud of dust.

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