Science fiction is about to become reality.
Shatner, 90, is set to beat out Funk and become the oldest person to travel to the final frontier.
The flight is expected to last about 11 minutes and take Shatner and the crew around 60 miles above the Earth's surface. They will hit weightlessness in zero gravity for about four minutes.William Shatner tours the launch tower with Blue Origin's Sarah Knights at Launch Site One in West Texas, Oct. 3, 2021.
"I assume they're gonna give [Shatner] a great strenuous physical test to make sure that he's totally capable of undergoing the 3gs or less that he's going to pull," Former NASA Astronaut Clayton Anderson told ABC News,"and he's really going to enjoy the ride, I'm sure. But if you look at his Star Trek history, I think he's way overqualified for this mission."New Shepard's 18th mission, NS-18, has targeted liftoff on Oct.
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