To Boldly Go...

[21st Century Man]

Love this.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58885...

[bitchstewie]

Quite.

An awesome achievement at 90.

I also liked that there was a lot of stuff on Twitter about people dressing up in Monkey suits for when he landed.

Wrong franchise I know but still

[rfisher]

Anyone notice the BBC trying to be clever by writing "the craft safely landed"?

I can't get me breath.

Edited by rfisher on Wednesday 13th October 17:45

[peterperkins]

Apparently he is fairly financially clued up and made a fortune from ST and investments etc.
He's nearly at the end of the road so may as well go out with a bit of a blast..

He might bump into an old reptilian friend and they can croon a few tunes together..

[bitchstewie]

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/144831033803474...

[SistersofPercy]

I mean, what a guy. I only wish to be sprightly enough to go to space and then hop out of the landing craft with the agility he did at 90.

[Saleen836]

Apparently he had to have a specially made headset, this was to cover his right ear his left ear and his final front(ier)

[voyds9]

He's no Zefram Cochrane

[anonymous-user]

I think after initially getting out of the capsule he was almost lost for words, probably the first time ever.

Sci-Fi meets reality.

[Trophy Husband]

Epic for him!
On another related topic, the man deserves an Oscar for his performances in Boston Legal!

[Dog Star]

I genuinely can’t think of someone more iconic to send up on a rocket - it’s a real “feel good” story, and for once a positive media coup for Bezos.

I’m absolutely astonished at what shape he’s in both physically and mentally.

[mac96]

May be a coincidence, but last night on the Horror channel there was an episode of Star Trek Series 1 in which the Enterprise somehow finds itself in 1969, and takes on board a US fast jet pilot who had been sent up to investigate a UFO sighting. Said pilot has failed astronaut training and is very happy to get a ride around the sun.

Of all the wealthy people getting rides into space, I think noone could begrudge Shatner.

[Ridgemont]

Trophy Husband said:

Epic for him!
On another related topic, the man deserves an Oscar for his performances in Boston Legal!

I’m Denny Crane.

Kudos to Shatner. 90 years young and still trekkin’.

https://youtu.be/FCARADb9asE

He comes in peace, shooting to kill.

[Super Sonic]

Great stuff really pleased for him :-)
Would like to see him being interviewed.

[Captain Smerc]

voyds9 said:

He's no Zefram Cochrane

[Radec]

Good on him.

Also as it's a thread about WS, any excuse to post one of my fave Shatner scenes.

[carl_w]

gottans said:

I think after initially getting out of the capsule he was almost lost for words, probably the first time ever.

Sci-Fi meets reality.

Then once he'd composed himself, hamming it up as usual.

Good on him though.

Surely at some point he must have said "Mr Sulu, take us out" or "Space: The Final Frontier"?

[TriumphStag3.0V8]

Saw this earlier. Made me chuckle.



Kudos to him for doing it, Amazing at his age.

[Ivan stewart]

Brilliant !! We should pay more attention to science fiction a lot seems to come true .

[anonymous-user]

60 miles FFS. Hardly the final frontier!

Draw a circle in a piece of A4 as big as you can fit in.
It will be 8 inches in diameter , so the scale is 1 in to 1000 miles .
Now draw a line from the surface representing 60 miles.
Can you see it? A dot of pen would be about right.
In the same scale , the moon is 20 ft away and the sun 330 yards.

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 13th October 22:58