After traveling to the edge of space this week, William Shatner and the crew of the NS-18 mission made it back to Earth safe and sound. This was the second time Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle flew to space with a crew aboard, and as with the inaugural flight, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos decided to enlist some star power! Who better than the man known to millions of fans as James Tiberius Kirk, Captain of the starship Enterprise?

At 90 years of age, the veteran actor of television, film, and stage is the oldest person to fly to space. The previous record was held by 82-year old veteran aviator Wally Funk, who went to space as part of the first crewed flight of the New Shepard on July 20^th. Along with his fellow crewmembers, Shatner’s experienced what it’s like to go to space for the first time from the company’s Launch Site One facility in West Texas.

On Wednesday, Oct. 13^th, the flight took place at 09:49 AM local time (10:49 AM EST; 07:49 AM PST) and saw the RSS First Step space capsule ascend beyond the Kármán Line – the official boundary of space, 100 km (62 mi) in altitude. And of course, the entire experience was caught on film, particularly the five minutes where the crew of four were weightless and looked out at Earth’s horizon from space.

Shatner expressed what it was like to be selected for the NS-18 mission in a video released by Blue Origin prior to launch (shown above). “Having played the role of Captain Kirk, everybody assigns me the knowledge that a futuristic astronaut would have,” he said. “But I’ve always been consumed with curiosity, and it’s the adventure that I feel so good doing.”

Upon landing, Shatner had some teary words to share with Bezos, and all those turned out at the landing site to greet them. “Everybody in the world needs to see. There is mother Earth and comfort. But what you see is black. What you have given me is the most profound experience I can imagine. I’m so filled with emotion with what just happened. It’s extraordinary. Extraordinary.”

In addition to Shatner, the crew included Audrey Powers, the vice president of mission and flight operations at Blue Origin and the chair of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation’s board of directors. “I think I reached a certain age, and I had given up on the idea that I would go to space,” she said. “I was teary-eyed that this opportunity has befallen me. It’s one of those moments where your life flashes before your eyes, you know?”

Rounding out the four-person crew were Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries, who were paying customers. Boshuizen is an Australian investment banker with DCVC and the co-founder of Planet, an Earth-observation and satellite data provider. De Vries, meanwhile, is the co-founder of Medidata Solutions (a clinical research company) and the vice-chair of life sciences and healthcare at the French software company Dassault Systèmes.