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blue origin

Star Trek star and NDG original William Shatner was hilariously amazed about being in space on the Blue Origin flight on October 13.

The actor, known to many as Captain James Tiberius Kirk, was the oldest person to ever fly in space, according to reports.

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William Shatner is set to launch into space on Wednesday and, this time, it's not the set of Star Trek — it's real life. But did you know Shatner's journey from infancy to outer space actually started in Montreal?

Shatner, who — at 90 — is expected to become the oldest person to ever reach space, was raised in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) neighbourhood.

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