Finally William Shatner, the Captain Kirk de Star Trek (also known as Star Trek in Brazil) will take a trip to space for real. The actor, famous for playing the role in a few seasons and some films in the saga, now 90 years old, is the next enger to take a trip to space with the company. Blue Origin, by Jeff Bezos. Along with Audrey Powers, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries, William Shatner will have his first real trip to space on October 12th. The actor will set a record by being the oldest person to have traveled to space. 326n1e
“I've heard about space for a long time. I'm taking the opportunity to go see it for myself. What a miracle."
William Shatner, actor who played Captain Kirk, on space travel
It will be the second trip with crew ever made by the company Blue Origin, the first taking place in July of this year (2021), taking Jeff Bezos himself along with his brother, a space travel veteran and an 18-year-old student. Originating in Texas, in the United States, the trip to space is expected to last about 10 minutes and will take the crew aboard Blue Origin to the Kármán Line — a boundary designated as the “boundary of space” by aeronautics, the final point between Earth and space — having as transport the spacecraft named “New Shepard”.
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The founder of Amazon.com made his first trip to space on July 20, for a period of approximately 10 minutes. Also aboard the New Shepard aircraft were Mark Bezos, brother of the founder, aviation pioneer Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen, the first enger to pay to board on Blue Origin.
The Blue Origin company was founded in 2000, focused on being a private company that guarantees access to space tourism, according to Jeff Bezos himself. The first unmanned test flight of the New Shepard aircraft took place in 2015, where it marked the first time that a suborbital booster (the one that propels the aircraft to climb harder) ascended into space and returned.
Despite questions about the environmental impact of space launches, questions about the company's use of wealth for entertainment and allegations of sexist culture, Bezos was ed from the start by William Shatner, who made it clear that he thought "money is money." him, he does what he wants.”
Furthermore, Shatner criticized the thought of Elon Musk about “colonizing” Mars, claiming that there would be nothing there but “putrid air and hellish heat” — even though it was his first time traveling to space. Perhaps the conceptions of the Star Trek series have messed with his judgment a little, for better or for worse.
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