Famous Star Trek actor William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk on the series, has finally gone into space for real during a brief 11 minute trip on board Blue Origin’s New Shepherd rocket that also made him the oldest person to do so.

The trip — which skimmed just above the 100km Kármán Line that is recognised internationally as the boundary into space — drew some disparaging comments from US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.

By way of comparison, rival space launch company SpaceX’s Inspiration 4 mission sent four private passengers into space for three days, making a number of orbits into progress.

However, Blue Origin and Shatner are not the only ones to edge past the bare minimum.

The ASX is also skimming into positive territory this week with the benchmark ASX 200 currently up 0.32% to 7,345.7 points.

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ViaGold Rare Earths Resources (ASX:VIA) +245%

Shares in ViaGold are currently suspended pending the ASX’s further enquiries into a memorandum of understanding that was referred to in the company’s mid-week trading halt.

The halt came after shares in the company soared early in the week with Stockhead’s Hot Money column noting on Monday that there was unusual price action in its shares despite little news flow.

PVW Resources (ASX:PVW) +100%

Investors were pleased after PVW’s rock chip sampling at the Tanami project returned high-grade rare earths results.

The company noted that 14 of the 20 samples returned assays greater than 1% total rare earths oxides (TREO) with a top result of 12.45% TREO.

It will soon carry out geochemical surface sampling and ground radiometrics at Killi Killi East target and is planning follow-up drilling at both Watts Rise and Killi Killi East.

Victory Mines (ASX:VIC) +67%

Early this week, the company unveiled plans to carry out an aeromagnetic survey over the 900sqkm of exploration licences and applications that it holds north of the Mt Ida goldfield through to the Ida Valley in the Menzies/Leonora region.

Its Mt Ida-Ida Valley project is immediately north of the historical Mt Ida Goldfield.

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