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\"I'm deeply disappointed because I was building up the enthusiastic response, now we have to wait another day,\" Shatner said. \"[But] it's really worth it. What's a day with this extraordinary experience that we're about to have.\"

The 11-minute ride to the edge of space about 60 miles above the earth's surface comes just two months after the first successful Jeff Bezos-owned space flight with Wally Funk, 82.

Shatner, 90, is set to become the oldest person ever to go to space and will hit weightlessness in zero gravity for about four minutes.

Blue Origin crew member Audrey Powers told \"GMA\" that this trip and opportunity was a long time coming.

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\"They offered me the opportunity to represent all those great people and sit in the seats, so I could not be more overwhelmed at the opportunity,\" she said. \"I feel an enormous sense of responsibility to represent this team.\"

Glen de Vries, a fellow Blue Origin crew member and passenger, added, \"this is how innovation happens.\"

\"This is the beginning of a new time for space and we're on the beginning of a curve that's going to blast off,\" he said. \"That's a metaphor for that adventure that we're literally going to have together. I can't wait.\"

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Shatner said he expects plenty of Captain Kirk references as the world watches him and the crew in flight.

\"Actually, I haven't heard Shatner in a long time,\" he said with a laugh.

New Shepard's 18th mission, NS-18, has targeted liftoff on Oct. 13, at 8:30 am CT from Launch Site One in West Texas.

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