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Emotion. gio benitez was there for the launch, later speaking with the planet's newest space travelers. >> reporter: tonight, history made. "star trek's" captain kirk, william shatner, boldly going to the final frontier and back. >> william shatner. >> reporter: at 90 years old, becoming the oldest person ever to blast off into space. more than five decades after "star trek" began. >> welcome aboard, captain. >> reporter: today, traveling aboard amazon founder jeff bezos' blue origin spacecraft, along with two paying customers, and blue origin's vp, audrey powers. the rocket traveling 66.5 mil...

Have been deployed in the capsule making its way back down to the earth surface. so, it appears somewhere standing to be moving quite slowly. this whole journey, this lasting lesson of ii quite slowly. this whole journey, this lasting lesson of 11 minutes. remarkably he can go up to the edge of space and experience the weightlessness and look back at planet earth and looked back down in less than a quarter of an hour. let's turn to syria now. thousands of wives and children of islamic state group's foreign fighters are currently held in camps in the north of the country. the kurdish authoritie...

Atmosphere, landed in texas this morning. and the second civilian launch for jeff bezos' blue origin. here's the moment of takeoff. >> t-minus ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four -- command engine start. two, one. >> she has cleared the tower and is on her space with the second human space flight crew. >> at its peak, the blue origin space capsule traveled nearly 350,000 feet aboveground level, reaching speeds of upwards of 2,000 miles per hour. in total, the mission lasted a little more than ten minutes. the crew experienced about three minutes of weightlessness at the

Flew shatner as a guest along with audrey powers and two paying customers. it lasted just ten minutes from takeoff to landing. they experienced about three minutes of weightlessness before the capsule started its descent back to earth. >> there go the parachutes. >> reporter: the live stream captured shatner sharing his thoughts with his shipmates. >> that was unlike anything they described. >> reporter: after landing safely, they secured the capsule and bezos himself did the honors. cheers as each of the four passengers walked out of the capsule, including captain kirk himself. >> captain kir...