William Shatner becomes oldest person to go to space at age 90 | ABC News

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Billionaire US businessman Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin has taken off for its second suborbital tourism flight, with actor William Shatner — who embodied the promise of space travel on the Star Trek TV series and films — among the four-person all-civilian crew that blasted off in Texas.

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