William Shatner’s Blue Origin launch into space delayed due to weather
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Shatner, best known for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek, will be part of a four-person crew aboard the suborbital NS-18 mission
The Star Trek actor William Shatner must wait another day to boldly go into space for real, after the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin company pushed this week's launch target of its New Shepard vehicle to Wednesday.
Due to forecasted winds on Tuesday 12 October, Blue Origin's mission operations team has made the decision to delay the launch of NS-18 and is now targeting Wednesday 13 October," the company said in a statement.
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