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Winds delay Blue Origin’s space launch with Shatner By Reuters

by Mike Robinson

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO – William Shatner visits the Launch Tower with Blue Origin’s Sarah Knights near Van Horn in Texas. This is an undated still from video. Blue Origin/Handout via REUTERS

(Reuters). Blue Origin Space Company, Jeff Bezos’s space company, said Sunday that they had pushed the launch target for this week of their New Shepard vehicle to Wednesday. It delayed William Shatner’s journey to the edge in space by a full day.

Blue Origin stated in a statement that “Due to the forecasted winds Tuesday, October 12th, Blue Origin’s Mission Operations Team has decided to delay the launch NS-18. They are now targeting Wednesday October 13.”

Shatner, who is most well-known for being Captain Kirk in “Star Trek”, will lead a team of four onboard the suborbital NS-18 mission.

The 90-year-old actor is flying https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/blue-origin-says-star-trek-actor-shatner-make-suborbital-flight-2021-10-04 as a guest of Blue Origin, but the company has said that it has also sold nearly $100 million in tickets to paying customers.

Blue Origin, which had a successful launch https://www.reuters.com/technology/jeff-bezos-worlds-richest-man-set-inaugural-space-voyage-2021-07-20 with Bezos in July, said that the mission operations team confirmed the vehicle met all requirements and astronauts began their training on Sunday.

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