Oyogist has learned that a US businessman who blasted into space with Star Trek actor William Shatner has died in a plane crash.
Glen de Vries, 49, was on a single-engine aircraft, but crashed in woodland in the US state of New Jersey.
The other person on the flight, Thomas Fischer, 54, was also killed.
Mr De Vries, joined Shatner on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s New Shepard spacecraft.
