William Shatner Will Ride Jeff Bezos’s Rocket to Space

I simply heard an endearing interview on NPR mentioning that William Shatner likes to frequent the fan-constructed Star Trek bridge in Ticonderoga, New York and say stuff like “take me to the bridge!” It’s that attribute sentimentality and the down-for-anything spirit that makes me really feel okay about this information: Shatner is making the temporary voyage to area (“space”; I desire “high, high in the sky”) on Jeff Bezos’s ship the New Shepard. TMZ reported the rumors in September. Blue Origin confirmed it right this moment, describing Shatner as, amongst different issues, a “horseman.” At 90 years younger, he will even be the oldest individual to ever journey to area.

Can you continue to love somebody who cooperates with the world’s most loathsome villain? We didn’t complain about Shatner Claus.

Shatner is predicted to take off on the dweeby 15-minute journey on the mission scheduled for October twelfth. TMZ has word that he was in talks a couple of documentary, which feels like a difficult position, given the need of filling an hour with lead-up footage and the in the end disappointing end result of actually a couple of minutes floating round in a capsule that goes up and down. It’s unclear how a lot Bezos will likely be charging for the rocket rides, however speculation has landed on someplace within the neighborhood of some hundred thousand {dollars}.

Sources advised TMZ final month that Bezos may be comping the journey, as he did for 82-year-old aviator and longtime aspiring astronaut Wally Funk, one other inherently lovable aged character. Meaning we are able to benefit from the small satisfaction of figuring out that Shatner’s burning a pin-prick-sized gap in Bezos’s pocket and possibly pilfering Blue Origin’s Skittles on the best way out. Or that Jeff Bezos is desperately searching for an area captain to connect to his pretend area journeys—about one minute of that are above the minimal line to technically name it “space”—now that “astronauts” are off the desk.

In that case, it’s additionally good to think about Jeff Bezos storming round along with his fraud FAA pin yelling at an assistant to get anybody with any ties to area on the road.

Fellow forged member George Takei has helpfully observed that the rocket appears to be like like a dick.

A former NASA engineer will even be part of.