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But more than that, he was just overjoyed by being able to leave the atmosphere. Jeff Bezos described seeing the Earth from space as a "tiny little, fragile thing" after traveling aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. Who is going into space with Bezos?: Meet the crew of Blue Origin's first human spaceflight Blue Origin crew share excitement from space launch Shatner’s three fellow passengers were Audrey Powers, a Blue Origin executive Chris Boshuizen, a former Nasa engineer and founder of the satellite earth imaging company Planet Labs and Glen de Vries, chief executive of the clinical research firm Medidata Solutions.īlue Origin aims to offer regular suborbital space rides for paying passengers from next year and has a booking form on its website for seats in the six-person New Shepard capsule.View Gallery: Blue Origin space flight: Photos of Jeff Bezos, crew on New Shepard

New Shepard’s reusable booster landed again safely after almost eight minutes in flight. Photograph: LM Otero/APĪfter separation from its booster rocket, the New Shepard capsule reached a maximum altitude of 66.5 miles, beyond the 100km (62-mile) Kármán Line recognized internationally as the boundary of space, giving the crew three to four minutes of weightlessness.Īfter reentering the atmosphere, the capsule fell back to earth and made a gentle touchdown guided by three parachutes almost 10 minutes and 30 seconds after lift-off. Parachutes carry the Blue Origin capsule with passengers William Shatner, Chris Boshuizen, Audrey Powers and Glen de Vries down to the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, on Wednesday. You are, and always shall be, our friend,” it said. “We wish you all the best on your flight to space. The US space agency Nasa also tweeted a good luck message to Shatner. Jeff Bezos’s brother Mark, a third member of the July crew, was more succinct. She said she, like so many others, was drawn to the space business by shows like Star Trek. James Tiberius Kirk go to space,” Blue Origin launch commentator Jacki Cortese said before liftoff. “This is a pinch-me moment for all of us to see Capt. Godspeed,” said Funk, who trained as a Nasa astronaut in the 1960s but never flew, in a pre-flight message read to the crew. “Together we’ll cross new boundaries and set new records. Shatner captured the mantle of oldest space traveler from Wally Funk, an 82-year-old former test pilot who flew with Bezos. Wednesday’s flight, named Mission NS-18, the 18th flight overall for the capsule named for Alan Shepard, the first American in space in 1961, was pushed back a day from Tuesday because of strong winds, and further delayed from its scheduled time of 8.30am by unspecified rocket issues.

Photograph: Mike Blake/Reutersīlue Origin workers followed up by dousing the crew with champagne once they had emerged. Welcome to Earth.”īlue Origin’s rocket New Shepard blasts off carrying Star Trek actor William Shatner, 90, on billionaire Jeff Bezos’s company’s second suborbital tourism flight near Van Horn, Texas, on Wednesday. “I guess that’s it, huh?” Shatner said, realizing he was about to experience real-life space travel after decades of fictional intergalactic voyaging.īezos, who used to pretend to be Captain Kirk when playing with his siblings as children, was also the first to greet the crew after their return, reopening the hatch and dipping his head into the capsule with the greeting: “Hello astronauts. The 57-year-old billionaire Bezos, who was aboard the maiden crewed flight of his own spaceship in July, posed at the launch site for photographs and closed the hatch after the crew entered the capsule about an hour before the 9.49am CT (3.49pm BST) blast-off into the clear blue Texas sky.

Blue Origin did not divulge their ticket prices for Wednesday’s flight. Photograph: Blue Origin/Reutersīezos, who has sold $100m in tickets for future rides and aims to dominate the fledgling space tourism industry, acted as chauffeur for Shatner and his colleagues on this morning’s short drive from Blue Origin’s crew headquarters to the launchpad in Van Horn. William Shatner and other passengers are driven to the launch pad of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket Wednesday.