VAN HORN, Texas - Space travel would leave a good number of ordinary citizens speechless, but William Shatner is no ordinary citizen.The 90-year-old Hollywood legend became the oldest person ever to travel to space Wednesday when he, Jeff Bezos and two others lifted off from West Texas on board a Blue Origin suborbital spaceflight.
As crewmates celebrated the trip by popping champagne bottles all around him, Shatner couldn’t be bothered to join in.RELATED: William Shatner launches into space aboard Blue Origin rocketHe was too busy waxing poetic about the experience."What you have given me is the most profound experience I can imagine," Shatner told Bezos, no longer able to hold back tears. "It’s an honor.