{"id":703892,"date":"2021-10-04T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=703892"},"modified":"2021-10-04T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:22:38","slug":"william-shatner-is-going-to-space-next-week-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=703892","title":{"rendered":"William Shatner is going to space next week (for real)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gettyimages-475631196_wide-e11ad2edb6ebfd868675a3edab00a66587f43c3b.jpg\" alt=\"More than 50 years after the Star Trek franchise took TV audiences to alien worlds, William Shatner will visit space aboard a Blue Origin spacecraft. Shatner, right, is seen here with castmates Nichelle Nichols and Leonard Nimoy in a 1967 episode of the show.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At age 90, the <em>Star Trek<\/em> actor is poised to become the oldest person ever to visit space. &#8220;It&#8217;s never too late to experience new things,&#8221; Shatner said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: CBS via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/npr-rss-pixel.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/10\/04\/1043055911\/william-shatner-space-flight-blue-origin-new-shepard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Shatner is going to space next week (for real)<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At age 90, the Star Trek actor is poised to become the oldest person ever to visit space. &#8220;It&#8217;s never too late to experience new things,&#8221; Shatner said on Monday.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}