William Shatner Successfully Travels to Space | THR News - video Dailymotion

At 90, the 'Star Trek' icon becomes the oldest person to leave the globe.

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00:00William Shatner has successfully traveled to space.

00:08On Wednesday, the 90-year-old iconic Star Trek actor blasted off into space aboard New Shepard NS-18 of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin.

00:16This makes him the oldest person to have left the globe.

00:19Shatner was in good spirits before he boarded the ship, and Bezos personally closed the ship's hatch.

00:24Blue Origin shared this video on Twitter.

00:30Shatner said in a drafted tweet that went live once he was in space,

00:41I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore,

00:48diverting myself in now and then, finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,

00:52whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

00:56After blasting off at 7.50 a.m. Pacific, the ship successfully returned to Earth just before 8 a.m. Pacific.

01:02Shatner told Bezos while describing the feeling of leaving Earth,

01:05I am so filled with emotion, I am overwhelmed, I had no idea.

01:08Blue Origin's vice president of mission and flight operations, Audrey Powers,

01:12and two crew members were also aboard the Wednesday flight.

01:15For more on this story, go to THR.com.

01:17For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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