2/10/2024 0 Comments Astronaut holding planetIt’s immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe.” “This air which is keeping us alive is thinner than your skin. “What I would love to do is to communicate as much as possible the jeopardy, the moment you see the vulnerability of everything,” he told Bezos. (“Was that death? Is that the way death is? Whoop and it’s gone. As if in a religious awakening, Shatner described his 10-minute flight whipping through the layers of the atmosphere as an existential journey through Earth’s “comforter of blue” into the “black ugliness” of space. When the New Shepard rocket capsule touched down in the dusty desert in west Texas on October 13, Shatner pulled aside Jeff Bezos, mega-rich tech lord of Amazon and founder of the private space company Blue Origin. Nothing could have prepared the man who played Star Trek’s Captain Kirk for the profound shock of seeing his home planet from 65 miles above. After decades of voyaging through galaxies in science fiction, William Shatner finally blasted off to space in real life last fall.
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