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Last active June 5, 2022 12:30
Speech of William Shatner after flying to space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin capsule
Bezos: Well?
Shatner: In a way, it’s indescribable.
Not only is it different than what you thought, it happens so quickly.
You know what? The impression I have, that I never expected to have, is you’re shooting up and there used to...
[gets interrupted by Bezos who asks for champagne]
What you [Bezos] have done... everybody in the world needs to be in this [capsule]. Everybody in the world needs to see
[in tears] ... it was unbelievable, unbelievable. I mean, you know, the little things... the weightlessness. But to see
the blue color [of the sky/atmosphere] WHIP by, and now you’re staring at the blackness, that’s the thing. The covering
of blue, this sheet, this blanket, this comforter of blue that we have around us. We think “oh that’s full of sky”. You
shoot through it all of a sudden as if you whip of a sheet off your windows. And you're looking into blackness, into BLACK