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At 90, Star Trek actor William Shatner becomes the oldest person to reach space | South China Morning Post

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William Shatner, famous for his role as Star Trek’s Captain James T. Kirk, blasted 66.5 miles (107km) above the surface of the Earth on October 13, 2021, aboard a Blue Origin rocket to the edge of space. The actor and three other crew members spent three minutes floating in zero gravity and saw the curvature of the …

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