(CNN)Captain Kirk is headed to space.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announced Monday histrion William Shatner, 90, volition beryllium connected the adjacent Blue Origin formation alongside Audrey Powers, Blue Origin's vice president of ngo and formation operations, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries.
"I've heard astir abstraction for a agelong clip now," Shatner said successful a property release. "I'm taking the accidental to spot it for myself. What a miracle."
And it has been a agelong clip coming.
Shatner has been pretending to unrecorded successful abstraction since the 1960s, erstwhile helium played Captain James T. Kirk connected the deed tv bid "Star Trek." He went connected to prima successful 7 "Star Trek" films.
He's besides the big and enforcement shaper of "The UnXplained" connected The History Channel, which explores the inexplicable, including aliens.
The announcement comes little than a week aft existent and erstwhile employees astatine Blue Origin co-signed an effort speaking retired against what they picture arsenic a toxic workplace, which Blue Origin denies.
The New Shepard NS-18 formation volition assistance disconnected October 12.
The travel volition instrumentality 11 minutes and soar past the Kármán Line, the internationally recognized bound of space.
CNN's Kristin Fisher and Jackie Wattles contributed to this report.
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