William Shatner, the actor best known for his roles in Star Trek and all those Priceline commercials, took an 11-minute space cruise last October in Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, but he didn’t enjoy it all that much. Shatner ended the trip weeping, he told CNN in a recent interview, because he was “grieving for the destruction of the Earth.”
At 90 years old at the time of the flight, Shatner is the oldest person to ever visit space. A ticket on Blue Origin’s quick space jaunt would’ve cost him about $28 million, affording Shatner just over 10 minutes in Earth’s orbit.
