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13 Oct, 15 tweets, 5 min read

🚀William Shatner is travelling to space with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin crew.

Mr Shatner will seek to make history as the oldest ever person to go to space.

Watch live here 👇

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At 90, Mr Shatner will pass Wally Funk as the oldest person to ever travel to the great beyond.

🔴Ms Funk, a former NASA engineer, was 82 years old when she joined Jeff Bezos on Blue Origin's first ever flight into space back in July

🔥Space tourism race heats up

For Blue Origin this mission, the second in less than three months, represents another step forward as it tries to establish itself as space tourism's leading player.

Follow live updates 👇

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Chris Boshuizen, William Shatner, Audrey Powers and Glen de Vries are pictured in a photo released by #BlueOrigin ahead of their launch.

📸Blue Origin via AP

🗣️William Shatner: 'I shall be entranced by the view of space'

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🧑‍🚀As we inch closer to launch, the Blue Origin crew has reached the rocket and will now climb aboard for their 11 minute sojourn to the great beyond

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🚀The crew climb aboard

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👑The current record holder for the oldest person to ever go to space has a message for the man who is about to steal her crown.

"I hope this flight will be the most fantastic experience of your life, as it was mine"
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⏲️10 minutes to go until launch

They will launch up to 62 miles above the ground, the internationally recognised boundary for space, before their capsule will float back down to Earth and conduct a "soft landing" in the West Texas desert

BLAST OFF!

⭐️It's one small step for man, one giant leap for ageing television sci-fi stars

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🚀William Shatner is about to become the oldest person to ever reach space!

Watch live👇

🌌They have reached altitude and experienced zero gravity.

Back they come, as William Shatner is officially the oldest human to ever reach space. Congratulations to him, as they reached a final altitude of 351,000 feet!
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🌍Touchdown!

There it is, a second successful space flight for Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin, one that has safely sent Captain Kirk himself into space
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The 90-year old actor delivered a short simple message on his return to Earth: "Everybody in the world needs to do this."

🌟"It was the most profound experience, I'm so filled with emotion," he told Jeff Bezos when he left the capsule
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William Shatner: "It's extraordinary. I hope I never recover from this so I never lose this emotion, this feeling"
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