William Shatner

The Star Trek celeb describes in a new book his feeling of "overwhelming sadness" at the edge of space.

They get to stay here on the ground…When the day finally arrived, I couldn’t get the Hindenburg out of my head. Not enough to cancel, of course—I hold myself to be a professional, and I was booked. The show had to go on.” The capsule, which in that case had no crew aboard, successfully jetted away from rocket and parachuted safely back to land. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.” Its New Shepard rocket-capsule system sends passengers 62 miles above the planet, where they experience microgravity before the capsule returns to land under parachutes.

In a new book, "Star Trek" actor William Shatner says his trip to space with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin last year filled him with "overwhelming sadness."

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Both Nichelle Nichols and Leonard Nimoy came up in the discussion. Shatner called Nichols “a wonderful talent.” Then the subject of Nimoy's death came up, ...

And it’s the strongest emotion of all. I wanted to see him and I was so – I am so hurt, so devastated. [via Trekmovie](https://trekmovie.com/2022/10/05/watch-william-shatner-still-devastated-over-how-things-ended-with-leonard-nimoy/)] to discuss his most recent book release, Boldly Go—Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder, which is [now available](https://www.amazon.com/Boldly-Go-Reflections-Life-Wonder/dp/1668007320?ascsubtag=srctok-eddb245cae28e7a2&btn_ref=srctok-eddb245cae28e7a2&linkCode=sl1&tag=trekmovie-20&linkId=f8f652a757d96c44f47ff7f3fbb0da1c&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl).

The 91-year-old Star Trek star revealed his true thoughts about his voyage to space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space shuttle in his new book, Boldly Go: ...

All the ideas and concepts that divide us when we are on the surface begin to fade from orbit and the moon. The result is a shift in worldview, and in identity.’” Head to Essentially, when someone travels to space and views Earth from orbit, a sense of the planet’s fragility takes hold in an ineffable, instinctive manner. [who is no longer going to space.](https://www.justjared.com/2022/03/18/pete-davidson-is-no-longer-going-to-space/) [William Shatner](https://www.justjared.com/tags/william-shatner/) The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna…things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind.

When veteran actor, William Shatner, made an October 2021 trip to outer space on Bezos' Blue Origin space shuttle - he didn't realize that it would leave ...

William Shatner, 91, said that seeing Earth from space aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket last fall was a profoundly saddening experience.

'It's so much larger than me and life, and it hasn't got anything to do with the little green hand or the little blue orb. There is Mother Earth and comfort and there is - is there death? 'I'm so filled with emotion with what just happened. 'To see the blue color whip by and now you're staring into blackness, that's the thing,' he said. 'It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. 'Instead, it felt like a funeral.'

"We got out of our harnesses and began to float around. The other folks went straight into somersaults and enjoying all the effects of weightlessness.

I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds, and the blue of the sky. And I was leaving her." "I turned back toward the light of home. "It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. "The other folks went straight into somersaults and enjoying all the effects of weightlessness. "We got out of our harnesses and began to float around," he recalled.

William Shatner felt a sense of "grief" when he went up into space. The 91-year-old actor - who is known for his starring role as Captain Kirk in the 'Star ...

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The Star Trek actor was taken by Jeff Bezos in a Blue Origin flight: 'It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered'.

“Everything I had thought was wrong. [by psychologists](https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fcns0000086) “a state of awe with self-transcendent qualities, precipitated by a particularly striking visual stimulus”. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness.”