Star Trek hero William Shatner became the world’s oldest person to travel to space on Wednesday as he reached the “final frontier” alongside a crew from Blue Origin. The four-person team launched from remote Van Horn, Texas, on board the Jeff Bezos-funded spacecraft. The brief flight allowed the Hollywood science fiction star to make his…
William Shatner, 90, Becomes Oldest Person to Enter Space
Star Trek hero William Shatner became the world’s oldest person to travel to space on Wednesday as he reached the “final frontier” alongside a crew from Blue Origin. The four-person team launched from remote Van Horn, Texas, on board the Jeff Bezos-funded spacecraft. The brief flight allowed the Hollywood science fiction star to make his…
William Shatner Becomes Oldest Man to Visit Outer Space
LOS ANGELES—Actor William Shatner, 90, who played Capt. James. T. Kirk in Star Trek, returned safely to earth in West Texas on Wednesday, making history as the oldest person to travel to space. “I’m overwhelmed. I had no idea,” Shatner said following an 11-minute suborbital journey into weightlessness—and the history books—aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship….
Australia Plans Lunar Rover to Help NASA Find Oxygen on Moon
CANBERRA, Australia—Australia has agreed to build a 20-kilogram (44-pound) semi-autonomous lunar rover for NASA to take to the moon as early as 2026 in search of oxygen. The rover would collect soil that contains oxides and NASA would use separate equipment to extract oxygen from that soil, a government statement said. Oxygen extracted from the…
William Shatner, Star Trek’s Capt. Kirk, Blasts Into Space
October 13, 2021
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VAN HORN, Texas—Hollywood’s Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner, blasted into space Wednesday in a convergence of science fiction and science reality, reaching the final frontier aboard a ship built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company. The “Star Trek” hero became the oldest person to ride a rocket, eclipsing the previous record—set by a passenger on…
With ‘Captain Kirk’ Aboard, Blue Origin to Return to ‘Space, the Final Frontier’
VAN HORN, Texas—Three months after billionaire U.S. businessman Jeff Bezos soared into space aboard a rocketship built by his Blue Origin company, the craft is set on Wednesday to take another all-civilian crew on a suborbital ride, this time with “Star Trek” actor William Shatner in the lead role. As one of four passengers selected…
As Shatner Heads Toward the Stars, Visions of Space Collide
October 12, 2021
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“Risk is our business,” James T. Kirk once said. “That’s what this starship is all about. That’s why we’re aboard her.” More than a half-century later, the performer who breathed life into the fabled Enterprise captain is, at age 90, making that kind of risk his own business and heading toward the stars under dramatically…
Big Picture, Big Data: Swiss Unveil VR Software of Universe
LAUSANNE, Switzerland—The final frontier has rarely seemed closer than this—at least virtually. Researchers at one of Switzerland’s top universities are releasing open-source beta software on Tuesday that allows for virtual visits through the cosmos including up to the International Space Station, past the Moon, Saturn or exoplanets, over galaxies, and well beyond. The program—called Virtual…
William Shatner’s Blue Origin Space Mission Delayed
By Entrepreneur Staff The launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-18 vessel, which will be carrying actor William Shatner, was delayed one day due to weather. It was slated to depart Earth on Tuesday. Forecasted winds pushed the launch up to Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. In a Sunday press release, Blue Origin said, “As part…
In a Rocky Israeli Crater, Scientists Simulate Life on Mars
RAMON CRATER, Israel—From the door of the expedition base, a few small steps to the left an autonomous rover passes by. A few giant leaps to the right is an array of solar panels. The landscape is rocky, hilly, tinged with red. Purposefully it resembles Mars. Here, in the Ramon Crater in the desert of…
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