(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 and Audrey Powers, Blue Origin's vice president of ngo and formation operations, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries.
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.
"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 a radical of 21 existent and erstwhile employees astatine Blue Origin co-signed an effort speaking retired against what they picture arsenic a toxic workplace wherever "professional dissent" is "actively stifled," and definite antheral leaders routinely prosecute successful sexist behavior.
In a statement, Blue Origin said it has "no tolerance for favoritism oregon harassment of immoderate kind. We supply galore avenues for employees, including a 24/7 anonymous hotline, and volition promptly analyse immoderate caller claims of misconduct." The institution did not respond to requests for remark astir circumstantial allegations successful the essay.
CNN's Kristin Fisher and Jackie Wattles contributed to this report.
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