William Shatner

Canadian - (BO)

Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: March 22, 1931
Age: 94

William Shatner OC is a Canadian actor, author, producer, director, screenwriter, and singer. In his seven decades of acting, he became a cultural icon for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.

Spaceflight Record

William Shatner flew on one previous launch(es).

New Shepard | NS-18

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Oct. 13, 2021, 2:49 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

NS-18 is the second crewed New Shepard flight, carrying 4 paying customers.

Suborbital NS-4 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

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CEO: Jeff Bezos

Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.

Recent Launches

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Ceres-1

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Jilin-1 High Resolution-04C and others

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Starlink Group 10-51

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A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Kinetica 1

Success

3 days, 20 hours ago

Chutian-2 01 & 02

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