Blue Origin sent Captain Kirk to the final frontier
Yulia Peresild was not the only actor to reach space in 2021. Thanks to Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, William Shatner, famous for portraying Captain Kirk on Star Trek, got a chance to view Earth from beyond the Kármán line—the internationally recognized boundary of space. But while Peresild spent a dozen days in orbit, Shatner’s trip on October 13 only lasted for a few minutes. Still, it was enough to bring the actor to tears. Tragically, Glen de Vries, the 47-year-old entrepreneur who joined Shatner for the trip to space, died in a plane crash on November 11.
