- Sunday 26 June 2022
90-year-old actor Willian Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in the Star Trek series is set to embark on a real-life space journey with Jeff Bezos's space travel company Blue Origin. He will become the oldest person to have flown into space. Shatner will be joining three other people aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket for the company's second human spaceflight.