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Captain James T. Kirk is blasting off into the final frontier. In the latest sign of the strange new world we inhabit, the actor William Shatner will join the crew of Blue Origin's New Shepard on a spaceflight that's slated to launch on Oct. 12.
"Yes, it's true," Shatner said on Twitter . "I'm going to be a 'rocket man!' "
At 90 years old, Shatner is more than twice the average age of NASA's astronauts . The Canadian actor, singer and writer "will become the oldest person to have flown to space," Blue Origin said as it announced his upcoming trip into space.