Blue Origin Delays Star Trek Actor William Shatner's Space Flight Due to Anticipated Winds

Shatner’s history-making flight was scheduled for October 12.

By Agence France-Presse | Updated: 11 October 2021 13:43 IST

Blue Origin Delays Star Trek Actor William Shatner's Space Flight Due to Anticipated Winds

Photo Credit: Facebook/ William Shatner

Shatner's trip will take him and the NS-18 rocket crew just beyond Karman line, 62 miles (100kms) high

Highlights

The new flight is scheduled for 8:30am (7:00pm IST)
Shatner, 90, will be the oldest person ever to go to space
His history-making flight was scheduled for October 12

Blue Origin announced Sunday it was delaying an upcoming flight set to carry actor William Shatner to space due to anticipated winds. Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk in the cult classic TV series Star Trek, is due to become the first member of the iconic show's cast to journey to the final frontier as a guest aboard a Blue Origin suborbital rocket.

His history-making flight was scheduled for October 12.

But "due to forecasted winds on Tuesday, October 12, Blue Origin's mission operations team has made the decision to delay the launch of NS-18 and is now targeting Wednesday, October 13," a spokeswoman said in a statement.

Beam Me Up! William Shatner May Go to Space Aboard Blue Origin Rocket

The new flight is scheduled for 8:30am (7:00pm IST).

Shatner, 90, will be the oldest person ever to go to space.

His trip will take him and the NS-18 rocket crew just beyond the Karman line, 62 miles (100kms) high, where they will experience four minutes of weightlessness and gaze out at the curvature of the planet.

Blue Origin's decision to invite one of the most recognisable galaxy-faring characters from science fiction for its second crewed flight has helped maintain excitement around the nascent space tourism sector.

For fans, the 10-minute hop from a West Texas base back to Earth will be a fitting coda for a pop culture phenomenon that inspired generations of astronauts.

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