William Shatner has returned to earth with a gentle bump after becoming oldest man to go into space.
The Star Trek actor, 90, reached the final frontier today, delighting the millions of sci-fi fans who know him as Captain James T Kirk of the USS Enterprise.
Billionaire Amazon founder Mr Bezos was behind Shatner’s trip to the stars through his Blue Origin space travel company.
Shatner and three other passengers lifted off in the fully automated, 60ft tall New Shepard rocket from Van Horn, west Texas, slightly later than planned in order to give experts more time to monitor winds in the area.
According to a live stream of the historic event, Shatner and his fellow passengers reached an altitude of roughly 350,000ft and a velocity of about 2,000mph.
A capsule, carried by parachutes, then brought the voyagers back to earth - landing in the desert.
Footage showed the actor safely exit the capsule, where he was greeted by Mr Bezos.
The richest man on earth with a fortune estimated at 177 billion dollars, cracked open a bottle of Champagne, which he sprayed around - and then discarded.
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