Photograph: Mike Blake/Reutersīlue Origin workers followed up by dousing the crew with champagne once they had emerged. Welcome to Earth.”īlue Origin’s rocket New Shepard blasts off carrying Star Trek actor William Shatner, 90, on billionaire Jeff Bezos’s company’s second suborbital tourism flight near Van Horn, Texas, on Wednesday. “I guess that’s it, huh?” Shatner said, realizing he was about to experience real-life space travel after decades of fictional intergalactic voyaging.īezos, who used to pretend to be Captain Kirk when playing with his siblings as children, was also the first to greet the crew after their return, reopening the hatch and dipping his head into the capsule with the greeting: “Hello astronauts. The 57-year-old billionaire Bezos, who was aboard the maiden crewed flight of his own spaceship in July, posed at the launch site for photographs and closed the hatch after the crew entered the capsule about an hour before the 9.49am CT (3.49pm BST) blast-off into the clear blue Texas sky.
Blue Origin did not divulge their ticket prices for Wednesday’s flight. Photograph: Blue Origin/Reutersīezos, who has sold $100m in tickets for future rides and aims to dominate the fledgling space tourism industry, acted as chauffeur for Shatner and his colleagues on this morning’s short drive from Blue Origin’s crew headquarters to the launchpad in Van Horn.
William Shatner and other passengers are driven to the launch pad of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket Wednesday.
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