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‘Everybody needs to do this’: Star Trek’s William Shatner is oldest man to visit the edge of space

The 90-year-old Shatner travelled to the Karman Line – the boundary between earth’s atmosphere and space – on board Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket.

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Oct 14, 2021 · 12:23 pm

Star Trek actor William Shatner has become the oldest person to go to space

The 90-year-old said it was "extraordinary"https://t.co/EDW371laOJ pic.twitter.com/NVTyXjtRM8

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 13, 2021

This was the voyage of the RSS First Step today. Its mission: encounter Earth from incredible views at apogee pic.twitter.com/Gzsnkv97K9

— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) October 13, 2021
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