'Star Trek' alum William Shatner to go to space on Blue Origin flight next week

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'Star Trek' alum William Shatner to go to space on Blue Origin flight next week

Wow - at 90 he will become the oldest person to go into space...
 
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So cool to watch the flight and see how fast (2,234 mph) and high (well over 330,000 feet) they went and to see the booster fly itself back to a landing pad in the desert shortly before the capsule landed softly in the desert. Space flight sure has come a long way.
 

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all my google feed is talking about is as shatner was decribing the moment, Bezos inturrupted to start spraying champagne lol
 

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