Captain Kirk flies into space
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William Shatner - Captain Kirk in cult classic Star Trek - has boldly gone where no 90-year-old sci-fi actor has gone before, aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket. He is the oldest person ever to travel into space
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NEW SHEPARD

CAPSULE 
Pressurized capsule, featuring largest windows ever used in space, allows up to six people to experience few minutes of weightlessness

PASSENGERS William Shatner (left), film and TV actor best known as Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek (inset); Audrey Powers (right), Blue Origin’s vice president of missions and flight operations; two paying passengers, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries

Height: 18 metres
BE-3 engine: Fuelled by liquid oxygen and hydrogen

Diameter: 3-3.5 metres
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FLIGHT PROFILE

1 Lift off from Van Horn, Texas
2 Capsule separates
3 Capsule reaches beyond Kármán line, over 100km above Earth, where space begins
4 Drag brakes deploy. Engine relights
5 Booster lands some 3km from launchpad

Capsule parachutes back to Earth 6 
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Sources: Blue Origin, BBC, Sky News Pictures: Blue Origin, CBS © GRAPHIC NEWS