Blue Origin's alternate mortal spaceflight has returned to Earth after taking a brief flight to the edge of space Wednesday morning.
Among the four passengers on board — there's no airman — was William Shatner, the actor who first played the space- traveling Captain Kirk in the Star Trek ballot.
"The covering of blue. This distance, this mask, this bedcover that we've around. We suppose,'Oh, that is blue sky,'"an emotional Shatner said after returning to Earth.
" Also suddenly you shoot through it all of the unforeseen, as though you are whipping a distance off you when you are asleep, and you are looking into blackness, into black ugliness."
At age 90, Shatner is now the oldest person to fly into space.
"I don't know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I feel to have been only like a boy playing on the shore, diverting myself in now & also chancing a smoother pebble or a proper shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of verity lay all undiscovered before me,"he said in a tweet after wharf.
The rocket system, New Shepard, took off around 950a.m. CT from a launch point near Van Horn, Texas.
Joining Shatner on the flight was a Blue Origin hand and two paying guests.
Billionaire Amazon author Jeff Bezos, who owns Blue Origin, was on- point for the launch and shook the hands of all four passengers as they boarded New Shepard. The rocket is named after American astronaut Alan Shepard.
The entire suborbital trip lasted about 10 twinkles. On part of the trip, the four passengers endured lightness.
The capsule outgunned out at an zenith altitude of bases (about 66 country miles over). It also fell back to Earth, landing under a cover of parachutes in the West Texas desert.
Blue Origin launched its first mortal spaceflight in July, with Bezos and three others on board.
Wednesday's flight came about two weeks after 21 current and former Blue Origin workers wrote an essay criminating top directors at the space company of fostering a poisonous plant that permits sexual importunity and occasionally compromises on safety. Blue Origin denied the allegations.
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