Editor’s Note: Capt. Kirk finally got beamed up into space today a bit differently than the TV series had scripted, but he was able to taste the real deal at 90 years old. VT congratulates him for his longevity and our memories of his journeys during our formative years where he took us along on the Enterprise with him.
What an event it would have been to have had Leonard Nimoy along for the ride, a legend for having made being a nerd ‘cool’. The Star Trek series, along with the backdrop of the ‘space race’ to the moon with Russia, were bookends for boys growing up at the time.
I remember standing in the back yard with my family as the Soyuz flew right over our house, and my father mentioned that it would boost the demand for engineers, sparking me along a path to NC State’s Chemical Engineering program years later.
I regret never catching a launch from Cape Canaveral. Gordon’s description, especially the roar of the engines, clued me in as to what I had missed. And here we are today, where a private company can take you up for a ride if you have won the lotto recently.
That said, I view the Martian colony exercise as a fool’s errand unless it was a place to send high-security prisoners like crooked politicians, banksters, and corporate con men as a prison colony… Jim W. Dean
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It’s always good to get back in the condition that you left
William Shatner, Star Trek’s Capt. Kirk, flies to space and back, adding to this year’s number of civilian astronauts
from the Washington Post
First published October 13, 2021
William Shatner, as Capt. James T. Kirk on “Star Trek” flew the USS Enterprise around the galaxy, on Wednesday reached the edge of space on a more modest quest, on a far less capable spacecraft but in a mission that had the distinct advantage of being real.
Shatner and a crew of three other passengers lifted off at 10:49 a.m. Eastern time from a launch site in West Texas owned and operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space company. The launch was the venture’s second human spaceflight mission, and it came three months after Bezos himself flew to space on his company’s New Shepard rocket.
Lasting just more than 10 minutes, the vehicle, named for Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space, climbed to a height of more than 66 miles, four miles beyond what is generally considered the edge of space.
Aloft and free-floating above the Earth, the crew took in views of the planet below and the dark skies beyond while they floated in weightlessness for a few minutes. With the completion of Shatner’s flight, 21 private citizens have been to space so far this year.
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As we should be, he was very… shaken by how small, fragile our life support / air supply is.
And I don’t think they even told him we lose 100 tons of air per day, to space.
He said, “I saw death for millions of miles, but a tiny lone speck of life”. 🌎
Need to send Republican cuckSERVatives up there. Maybe they’ll stop SERVing Mammon in time to conSERVe our only home.
Jesus:
“You can’t serve Mammon.”
Trump’s Bible Belt Base:
“Hold my beer!”
Great comment, Hoops. That is indeed the way it works with US Christian Zionists, a tip of the hat to the Sermon on the Mount, then pray for WWIII to happen so they can be Raptured up to Heaven.
Shatner looks in terrific shape for being 90. Hope he’s an inspiration to seniors, who, by the way, will be receiving a 5.9% increase in Social Security benefits in 2022!
That is helping to cover the medicare copay creeping up, and helps cover a supplement cost so you don’t take a bid hit on a medium medical incident.
After three failed marriages and another one drowned in their swimming pool.
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