If I make it to 90 I'll go hunting to celebrate. Different people have different ambitions... hope he has fun.
"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend." Isak Dinesen
He’s always been a lousy actor and a dickhead, but he’s the original Captain Kirk, Star Trek is shown in reruns 50 years later, and I think it’s pretty cool badge for the guy to pin on as his days wind down.
It'll be interesting to see how he handles the G-forces and weightlessness. They're hard on a young body and he's 90. He might be in need of Voyager's online doctor before they get back down. I wonder of Bezos is taking him for a study in geriatric space flight.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
Meh. These up and down flights are little more than a very expensive carnival ride. A once in a lifetime thrill, to be sure, but they are in no way "astronauts" because they have zero ability to control events or intervene in the automated sequence. That, IMHO, ought to be a qualification in the definition of astronaut status. They are no different than airline passengers, none of whom are granted pilot wings after flying.
The recent SpaceX orbital mission, on the other hand does qualify. Those four were not just passengers, they were crewmembers. The Commander and Pilot had control screens and could have intervened or took over control if the need arose, and the two others had mission responsibilities.
I wish Shatner well, and I hope that he isn't the first to die during the flight, thus becoming the reason why the whole industry gets shut down.
I hope his heart's in good shape. Pretty cool to think Captain Kirk is going on a space ship mission. Much shorter than his five year mission of the series, and he's much less likely to find any new life, or new civilizations.
It'll be interesting to see how he handles the G-forces and weightlessness. They're hard on a young body and he's 90. He might be in need of Voyager's online doctor before they get back down. I wonder of Bezos is taking him for a study in geriatric space flight.
It can't be to bad. They put John Glenn on the space shuttle to the International Space Station at 88.
RC, I think you have things confused. Shatner's upcoming flight is on the SUB-orbital rocket of Blue Origin (Bezos). The three-day orbital mission was flown last week, and was by SpaceX (Musk). Shatner will go up and down on a Flaming Phallus - and it tickles me to write that.
RC, I think you have things confused. Shatner's upcoming flight is on the SUB-orbital rocket of Blue Origin (Bezos). The three-day orbital mission was flown last week, and was by SpaceX (Musk). Shatner will go up and down on a Flaming Phallus - and it tickles me to write that.
The OP article, 2d paragraph, says its a low orbit flight.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
The reporter doesn't know fecal matter from shoe polish,RC. Orbit and space are not synonymous. Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket cannot achieve orbit. It is named, in fact, after Allen Shepard's 15-minute sub-orbital flight in the Mercury program. Blue Origin's orbital-class rocket (if it ever flies) will be called New Glenn, in the same vein.
Hard to believe that this skit appeared on SNL at what seemed like a very long time after the series ended, yet Shatner seemed quite young vs his current 90 year age today.
RC, I think you have things confused. Shatner's upcoming flight is on the SUB-orbital rocket of Blue Origin (Bezos). The three-day orbital mission was flown last week, and was by SpaceX (Musk). Shatner will go up and down on a Flaming Phallus - and it tickles me to write that.
The OP article, 2d paragraph, says its a low orbit flight.
I don’t think I’d argue with Rock about space schit.
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