As William Shatner Rockets To Space, Here's How To Win A Ride

On Wednesday, October 13 at 8:30am CT, William Shatner, who starred as Captain Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series, will be going where no Hollywood star has gone before -- a suborbital sojourn that will take him 66 miles to the edge of space where he will be able to marvel at the curvature of earth and enjoy zero gravity weightlessness with his Blue Origin crew members. The entire experience is expected to last about 10 minutes and will be similar to the ride that Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took this past summer with his brother and crew. Shatner might be the oldest person to rocket to space at 90 years old, but he's not the first actor to go. Feature filmmakers from Russia landed on the International Space Station last week beating Tom Cruise to bragging rights. The actor has been working on a $200 million Universal Studios film with SpaceX founder Elon Musk which NASA tweeted last year is expected to be shot on the space station.