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Shatner, 90, ascended to space more than 50 years after beginning his role as James T. Kirk on the original 'Star Trek' series.

William Shatner just launched to space atop Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket! Making him the oldest human to reach the final frontier, at 90 years old.

Shatner, 90, ascended to space more than 50 years after beginning his role as James T. Kirk on the original 'Star Trek' series.

I would say, look out the window. because thats something that you cant recreate on earth. you can do a little bit of zero g in the airplane like the vomit comet. so i just spend my time looking out the window if i had the opportunity. >> scott, what is it like for that moment when youre inside the spacecraft and you can no longer see the ground? because as someone who watched that launch over the summer, that was a moment of panic for so many of us, to see the spacecraft, and suddenly, it was g...

"new shepard" mission said they hope to do if and when they finally get up into space, if this countdown clock ever starts going again. then theyll fall back down to earth with the assistance, of course, of gravity and the assistance of those three big parachutes. jim, one other very important thing to point out, in addition to a rocket launch which should be going in about 15 minutes if this hold ever stops, were also going to get to see a booster landing which was once described as one of the ...

Followed by two sss. >> ill take the astronaut title. i would very much appreciate being held in that club. >> okay. so he is an astronaut. are they really astronauts? >> they are going up 60 miles vertically. i would say that qualifies, right. if theyre russians, theyre cosmonauts. there is a difference. astronauts are part of our civil space program. this is part of our private space program. so its a very different thing. what jeff bezos and blue origin are showing is we have this idea that i...

What do you see as the mission of this flight? >> i think it is raising awareness about space flight, it is providing more common access to people to launch into space because i do think it is -- it gives us a unique perspective on the planet and what were capable of achieving. it inspires and motivates kids to study those s.t.e.m. subjects that are so important. i think mostly it is an inspirational mission. hopefully at some point theyll start putting maybe, like, college kids on here with som...

Stephanie, a committee source tells me they expect it to happen expeditiously both at the committee level and at the house level, that criminal contempt referral. >> we now have to turn back to our lead story on the right side of your screen you are seeing the team ready for this launch. theres jeff bezos in the drivers seat getting ready with the team. of course he will not be part of this mission. were now 41 minutes away from blue origins second manned space flight. right now the four are set...

0 >> i wouldnt say all of it is aimed towards that. of course, any commercial veteran needs to turn a profit in order to stay in business. so its partially about that. its partially about helping jeff bezos realize his big picture dream of colonizing what we call sis lunar space, the area between low earth orbit and the moon. this is a small first step for jeff bezos and blue origin, showing that they can launch people successfully into space and they have other rockets and bigger ambitions on t...

Shatner explored the fictional galaxy as Star Trek's Captain James T. Kirk. Now Blue Origin is sending him on an 11-minute jaunt to the edge of space.