The Cost of William Shatner’s ‘Most Profound Experience’
The actor got his oldest-in-space record for free, but most commercial astronauts will have to pay for their historic milestones.
Updated at 2:38 p.m. on Oct. 13, 2021.
William Shatner was a little nervous about that rocket. A week ago, during a CNN interview, his eyes went wide when the network showed a clip of a Blue Origin rocket taking off, streams of blazing exhaust unfurling from below. He’d never seen that footage before, he said, with all that “fire and brimstone.” “Oh my gosh,” the actor said. “Things like that go up and boom in the night. It’s a little scary.”
Shatner, clad in a cobalt-blue spacesuit, took that rocket to the edge of space this morning, along with three other passengers, for a few minutes of weightlessness and a beautiful view. Captain Kirk reference here. (I’ve never seen the show—sorry! Did you want me to lie about it?)
