ok, we will see how these negotiations go, rebecca ryan, thank you. kirk in the cult tv show startrack. william shatner, 90 years old, will fly aboard blue origin�*s next crude rocket on october 12. michael ward is a senior writer with the astronomy magazine and i asked him what he made of it. yeah, it's newsworthy, it is something to talk about, i guess, right? that was a point of this announcement, i'm sure. i mean, blue origin is getting some good publicity out of this and it's gonna be good advertisement for the product which is a, yeah, like a space tourism vehicle that can take people on brief trips to the suborbital frontier. and i get this idea of having a celebrity onboard on your earlierflights to get your publicity up and, of course, the star trek links, well, irresistible, isn't it? it's great. yeah. i want to put this delicately but he is 90 years old. are there any particular risks with being that age and doing this? yeah, well, you know, being 90, just getting out of bed in the morning is a bit of a risk, i suppose, so not to make light