Blue Origin unveils next flight, TMZ says Captain Kirk to be aboard

Blue Origin, the house firm owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, introduced plans on Monday for its subsequent flight and the information and leisure web site TMZ stated it might embody a star astronaut—William Shatner, who performed Captain Kirk on “Star Trek.”

TMZ reported that the 90-year-old Shatner could be on the October 12 voyage, making him the oldest person ever to go to house.

Blue Origin revealed the names of two members of the four-person crew however didn’t affirm that Shatner could be on the flight.

It stated Chris Boshuizen, a former NASA engineer and co-founder of Planet Labs, and Glen de Vries, a co-founder of scientific analysis platform Medidata Options, could be on the rocket and the names of the 2 different astronauts will likely be revealed “within the coming days.”

Blue Origin stated the New Shepard rocket would blast off from the corporate’s launch web site in west Texas at 8:30 am Central time (1330 GMT) on October 12.

Bezos, the world’s wealthiest man, his brother Mark, aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and paying buyer, Oliver Daemen, flew into house on Blue Origin’s first crewed flight on July 20.

Funk, at 82, and Daemen, 18, have been the oldest and youngest individuals ever to enter house.

The ten-minute journey took them past the Karman line—the internationally acknowledged boundary marking the beginning of house—and again once more to Earth.

The October 12 flight will replicate that journey.

Blue Origin quoted Boshuizen as saying that the upcoming flight could be the “success of my biggest childhood dream.”

De Vries, a vice chair at Dassault Systemes, which acquired Medidata in 2019, stated the journey “is really a dream come true.”

Blue Origin’s first crewed flight got here simply days after one by Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson, who crossed the ultimate frontier on July 11, narrowly beating the Amazon magnate of their space battle of the billionaires.

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