Age 90: William Shatner will ride Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Shepard rocket next month:

[tblue37]

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Captain Kirk is truly headed to space...at 90. William Shatner is set to board Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin New Shepard rocket next month, according to TMZ, becoming the oldest man to ever fly into space.

[Hekate]

1. Woot!

Godspeed, Capt Kirk!

[AZLD4Candidate]

2. Wouldn't it be cool if he gave the Star Trek opening monologue from space?

I've been binge watching (again) the original series and the first six movies.

[Srkdqltr]

3. No matter what anyone thinks about Bezos or his space thing, Shatner should go.

No one is more appropriate. Patrick Stewart should go also.

[alphafemale]

12. Make it so.

And from what I have seen, Sir Patrick seems to also be an awesome human being.

[tblue37]

4. My daughter, an aerospace medicine doctor, did research that shows that people of even

advanced age and/or with medical conditions --as long as those conditions, like high blood pressure, for example--are controlled can tolerate the high Gs needed for lift off.

[JI7]

5. What's he going to wear ?

[tblue37]

6. He should be allowed to wear a Starfleet uniform. It would be great PR for the franchise.

[Archae]

8. A red shirt?

[MiniMe]

9. I think his shirts were gold

[Archae]

10. They were, but I was making a Trek joke.

Red shirts were usually the first ones in the Old Series to get killed.

[MiniMe]

14. That I remember

Uh oh, he is wearing a red shirt

[MustLoveBeagles]

7. Cool

I'll try to watch the launch.

[Tom Rinaldo]

11. All mixed feelings aside...

That is a very very cool thing to be happening and it definitely makes me smile.

[LudwigPastorius]

13. How is The Shat going to keep his toupee on in zero g?

He'd better use some of that heavy duty Starfleet Duct Tape!

[Talitha]

15. OMG, he's 90?!? Sure doesn't look it.

Godspeed, Captain Kirk!

[twin_ghost]

16. He should fly with Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Bezo's junkett only goes to the edge of space. Just sayin...