William Shatner almost got off the Blue Origin rocket during the countdown to his historic space flight.
The 95-year-old actor became the oldest person to go up into space when he blasted off on Jeff Bezos' New Shepard NS-18 rocket in October 2021 but he had doubts while climing 11 stories in the gantry to get to the ship opening and noticed gas coming off one of the vents, which he was tod was hydrogen.
