William Shatner the 90 year old Canadian actor, who played Captain James Tiberius Kirk in the original series of Star Trek, will become the world's oldest astronaut on October 12th when he flies as part of the crew aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin spaceship.
The previous oldest was American Senator and former astronaut John Glenn, who flew on board the Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission at an age of 77. The mission took off on 29th October 1998 and lasted nine days. William Shatner's flight will only last ten minutes.
In a way William Shatner is not the first member of the original Star Trek cast to make it into space because apparently the ashes of James Doohan the actor, who player chief engineer Montgomery Scott ("Scotty") , were smuggled aboard the international space station after his death.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58792761
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