William Shatner’s Blue Origin Spaceflight Delayed

“Star Trek” actor William Shatner will have to wait another day for his historic ride on a Blue Origin spacecraft.

Jeff Bezos’ commercial space company announced Sunday it was delaying Blue Origin’s next crewed spaceflight due to weather conditions.

The New Shepard NS-18 crew, including Shatner, was originally scheduled to launch on Tuesday to the edge of space. Blue Origin delayed the suborbital mission to Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. ET, blaming possible high winds.

Joining Shatner on the spaceflight will be Audrey Powers, who serves as vice president of the New Shepard Mission and flight operations, Dr. Chris Boshuizen, a former NASA engineer and co-founder of Planet Labs, and Glen de Vries, vice chair of Life Sciences and Healthcare at Dassault Systèmes.

Blue Origin tweeted a crew photo, including Shatner with a beaming smile, late Sunday.

Coverage of the event on Blue Origin’s website is expected to begin an hour before blast-off at Launch Site One in West Texas.

The mission operations team confirmed that the crew began training Sunday, according to Blue Origin, which said the space vehicle has met all mission requirements.