It’s a big day for news about movies in space with the announcement that Captain Kirk is finally about to blast off for real and Russia is sending a filmmaker and an actor to the International Space Station to make a film. Key points: Shatner’s flight will soar to about 106 kilometres The Russian filmmaker will spend almost two weeks on the International Space Station The crew plans to film segments of a new movie titled Challenge  Jeff Bezos’s space travel company, Blue Origin, said that Star Trek actor William Shatner would join three others — two of them paying customers — aboard a capsule on October 12. “Yes, it’s true; I’m going…