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Absolutely amazing account of his experience. Absolutely amazing. I've been a huge William Shatner admirer since 1968. I feel I know and respect him now more than ever. Never met the Captain. What an emotional experience.
Liftoff is scheduled for 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT).
The actor and passengers discuss the 'possibilities' of spaceflight ahead of traveling in Jeff Bezos' rocket.
The launch is now scheduled for 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT) on Wednesday. You can watch it here at Space.com, courtesy of Blue Origin, or directly via the company. Coverage will begin 90 minutes before liftoff.
China has rolled out a rocket to the pad to send three astronauts from the desert up to its new Tianhe space station core module, although the launch date remains a mystery.
Captain Kirk is experiencing some pre-flight jitters.
In 2018, Blue Origin paid consultants to tell them how to copy the success of SpaceX. Ars Technica reviewed the consultant's advice and findings about rapid iterative testing and how motivated SpaceX employees were.
The biblical "sin cities" of Sodom and Gomorrah could have been destroyed by a meteor "cloudburst" that incinerated all 8,000 inhabitants, a fascinating new study suggests.
'Planetary defense!' NASA will launch November mission to deflect 'devastating' asteroid from hitting Earth by NUDGING it with a spacecraft, agency says
Tom Cruise WON'T become the first movie star to travel to space: Russian actress Yulia Peresild will launch to the ISS TOMORROW to film scenes in orbit
Captain Kirk is rocketing into space next week -- boldly going where no other sci-fi stars have gone.
With Blue Origin's second crewed flight less than two weeks away, the company is facing scathing allegations about its culture and the safety of its suborbital launch system, New Shepard.
SpaceX has launched the first Starlink v1.5 satellites which have laser communication between satellites. Starlink v2.0 satellites will also launch within the next three months in 2021. Version 2.0 satellites will be significantly more capable.
A NASA NIAC Phase III is developing and plans to fly a 2022 TDM (Technology Demonstration Mission) to prove the SGLF's (Solar Gravitational Lens Focus) mission architecture.
The Virgin Group and Branson sold a combined $800 million worth of stock during a seven-week period when shareholders were in the dark about the incident and subsequent actions.
University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon researchers have a NASA NIAC study into kilometer size structures deployable from a single SpaceX Falcon 9 launch.
A NASA NIAC phase 2 is developing Titanium Nitride solar sails that would be able to perform an extremely close flyby of the sun to achieve speeds of 60 AU per year. This would be over 15 times faster than the Voyager (3.6 AU per year) spacecraft.
There are currently tens of thousands of pieces of manmade debris whizzing around the Earth at blazing fast speeds, the result of things like busted up rocket parts and fragmented satellites.
The public can comment on the draft assessment until Oct. 18.
"We have interest for both Dragons and Starships, which is pretty exciting."
The Federal Aviation Administration released a draft environmental review of SpaceX's plans for orbital launches from South Texas on Friday, kicking off a 30-day public comment period
More than 800 minor objects are spotted beyond Neptune in discovery that could help in the search for the mysterious Planet Nine
MOSCOW -- The first satellite in space, the first dog, the first man, the first woman and now -- if all goes as planned -- the first movie.
The discovery of hundreds of new objects in the outer solar system confirms weird gravitational effects that could be caused by "Planet Nine."
Talk about a room with a view! SpaceX shares a mesmerising video of the domed window on its Crew Dragon capsule as the first all-civilian crew begins its three-day orbit of Earth
SpaceX made history tonight as it launched a crew of private citizens on a jaunt around Earth. For an added bonus, the rocket landed on its drone ship, marking the company's 92nd booster recovery.
The latest in a recent line of space-obsessed billionaires was set for liftoff on Wednesday with three less wealthy private citizens along for the ride aboard a SpaceX rocket ship, seeking to become the first all-civilian crew launched into Earth orb
NASA on Tuesday awarded Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and four other companies a batch of contracts to develop lunar lander concepts.
Doug Plata wrote an article on the Space Review that indicates that Starship to Orbit should be a policy tipping point. Orbital Starship is a historic transformation.
