How cool is that, Captain Kirk will fly in space for real, at 90. He will set a new record for the oldest person to fly to space.
Way to go captain!

Well that Blue Origin ride is more like going up on a really big Parachute Jump at Coney Island. It may count as Outer Space, but just barely.

Having said that, I sure as heck wouldn't do it, so all the power to Shatner. He sounded like he was really rambling in his speech at the NYCC. Let's just hope he knows where he is when he does it.

All kidding aside, it is cool that he is breaking a space record. Maybe his autograph cards will go up again when he is an official astronaut.

"Cards signed in space"

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"Cards signed in space"

Can you imagine if he were able to get 5 or 10 cards signed during the flight?! That would be the stupid money insert of the millennium!

Shatner was on Shark Week this year. He suited up and dove with a group while tiger sharks swam around them. Tiger sharks are maneaters. That dude is fearless. He's the Evel Knievel of the 21st century!

Truly fearless.

He did it!

Plus a new world record. Not a bad day.

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Originally posted by jademaliburoad:
"Cards signed in space"

Can you imagine if he were able to get 5 or 10 cards signed during the flight?! That would be the stupid money insert of the millennium!

Too short for signed cards. Costume cards?

Got to hand it to Bezos, he knew the only way to get network coverage for Blue Origin now was to send up Captain Kirk. For his third trip he can give a seat away to Sigourney Weaver, but I think she already said she would do it with Virgin. Who else is there, Elton John?

You could tell that Shatner is going to use this as material for the rest of his life. Everybody wins.

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Who else is there, Elton John?

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney

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Originally posted by Raven:
You could tell that Shatner is going to use this as material for the rest of his life. Everybody wins.

I imagine him to be like Wolowitz in Big Bang Theory.

George Takei is clearly miffed about the whole thing. No love lost there.

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Originally posted by Raven:
Who else is there, Elton John?

Jean-Luc Picard, Mark Hamill or Lee Majors?

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Originally posted by jademaliburoad:

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Originally posted by Raven:
Who else is there, Elton John?

Jean-Luc Picard, Mark Hamill or Lee Majors?

Harrison Ford! He's crash landed in everything else.

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Originally posted by jademaliburoad:
Truly fearless.

He did it!

Plus a new world record. Not a bad day.

Is it a world record when you're miles above the world?

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Harrison Ford! He's crash landed in everything else.

That would be a major improvement!!

Yeah, remember that Shatner celebrity roast years ago? He arrived on horseback. Takei was there and he exclaimed, "F*** you, and the horse you rode in on."

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George Takei is clearly miffed about the whole thing. No love lost there.