AlthoughWilliam Shatnerexperienced awide range of emotionsfollowing hishistory-making space trip, not every moment was so heavy — literally.
“Weightlessness. Oh, Jesus,” Shatner remarks in the clip, as laughs break out from the rest of the four-person crew.
“No description can equal this,” he later added. “Wow.”
TheStar Treklegend became theoldest person to ever travel to spaceon Wednesday, making the suborbital voyage on Blue Origin’s New Shepard capsule.
Minutes after taking hisfirst steps back on Earth, a visibly emotional Shatner reflected on how the trip was unlike anything he could have imagined.
William Shatner.Mario Tama/Getty
“I hope I never recover from this. I hope I can maintain what I feel now. I don’t want to lose it. It’s so, so much larger than me,” he told Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, who founded Blue Origin. “It has to do with the enormity and the quickness and the rudeness of life and death.”
“What I would love to do is communicate as much as possible the jeopardy, the moment you see the vulnerability of everything. It’s so small. This air which is keeping us alive is thinner than your skin. It’s a sliver. It’s immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe,” he continued. “I am overwhelmed. I had no idea.”
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(L-R) Chris Boshuizen, William Shatner, Audrey Powers and Glen de Vries.Blue Origin/UPI/Shutterstock
“When I was there [in space], everything I thought might be clever to say [about the trip] went out the window,” he said on theTODAYshowThursday.
source: people.com
