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FLYING HIGH: Video from inside the Blue Origin spacecraft shows William Shatner and the crew expressing amazement as they floated through the air and looked down on Earth from space.
CBS News on Twitter ^ | October 13, 2021 | CBS News

Posted on 10/13/2021 5:43:13 PM PDT by White Lives Matter

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To: White Lives Matter

Wonder how Shatner’s toupee performed in zero G.


41 posted on 10/13/2021 7:46:02 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: rlmorel

Fully agree. He doesn’t mind joking around about himself. I like that. Not stuffy and full of himself.


42 posted on 10/13/2021 8:01:43 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: Yardstick

He doesn’t wear a toupee anymore.


43 posted on 10/13/2021 8:08:11 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: Secret Agent Man

I am too! It is really a wonderful thing, that one of the guys who inspired so many got a chance to see the Earth from space.


44 posted on 10/13/2021 8:08:20 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Karl Spooner

True! One of the requirements to ride on that rocket is to be able to climb seven flights of steps to the top of the launch tower in which he amazingly did.


45 posted on 10/13/2021 8:11:46 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: DesertRhino

I think when I really did see him in that light was when he sung “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”!


46 posted on 10/13/2021 8:28:17 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: White Lives Matter
One of the requirements to ride on that rocket is to be able to climb seven flights of steps to the top of the launch tower

I hear Joe Biden wants to go now.

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47 posted on 10/13/2021 8:46:18 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: steve86

“Who cares...?” I don’t care. Bezos and his losers stole from the Shuttle design from 1978 and Bezos still pretends he is so original. Funny how on KTLA 5 news this morning 10/13/21 the anchor said, “How wonderful that space travel is finally available to everyone.” Yeah, right. Humble people flew the Geminis and Apollos. Elite millionaires will fly with Bezos. Why was the Shuttle program cancelled and 250,000 jobs destroyed? Was it because losers like Obama hate the American way? I have friends in Los Angeles who still miss working on the Shuttle program.


48 posted on 10/13/2021 8:47:46 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Karl Spooner

I am laughing at the Superior Intellect.


49 posted on 10/13/2021 8:48:23 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents.)
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To: Falconspeed

[Why was the Shuttle program cancelled and 250,000 jobs destroyed? Was it because losers like Obama hate the American way?]

Tell us why you think it was cancelled.


50 posted on 10/13/2021 9:11:11 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: WMarshal

Newspaper headline: “.A Jew in Space”. Iran launches an official protest. Nobody gave a crap. A good day for man-
kind and my Shatner autographs (esp. Twilight Zone - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” card.

Next: Israel launches kosher kitchen into orbit. Astronauts can now celebrate Pass-Over every 18 hours. Frozen matzo- balls can be used to destroy communist satellites and missiles. Manischevitz stock rises (double entendre here, folks).


51 posted on 10/13/2021 9:15:48 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: adorno

His reaction was “space is death”.


52 posted on 10/14/2021 3:08:14 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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To: White Lives Matter
Meanwhile, from across The Pond, on this subject and providing still more evidence that the Windsors don't breed them for brains...

ROCKET ATTACK Prince William slams Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk after William Shatner ‘space tourism’ saying ‘fix the planet first’

53 posted on 10/14/2021 3:46:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla
Oh, dear...

Royal Family LIVE: Speak to Harry first! William's space probe claim sparks fury PRINCE William's criticism of a billionaire space race taking focus away from repairing the earth has prompted backlash, with a politician suggesting the royal should address a "problem nearer to home" by speaking with his brother Harry about climate change first.

54 posted on 10/14/2021 3:49:08 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: White Lives Matter

I see that Shatner somehow kept his feet on the floor. I guess his many years of space experience paid off!


55 posted on 10/14/2021 7:00:13 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. --Matthew 24:12)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Bezos was listening to Shatner's halting attempt to articulate his impressions about his ten minute thrill ride, then turned away a few times to yap at someone else. Ultimately it was apparent why William Shatner was better received as an actor than as a writer. I have read one of his memoirs, but bought it off a remainder table. :^) Regardless, kudos to him for his record -- oldest person to space (and back) -- which could stand for a pretty long time.

56 posted on 10/15/2021 8:48:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

LOL


57 posted on 10/15/2021 8:56:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

LOl, I noticed that as well. The dumb chick in the tight black pants acted like she built the damn rocket. Shatner was on the verge of expressing his feelings and Bozo just turned away.


58 posted on 10/15/2021 8:59:45 AM PDT by New Perspective (#NotMyPresident -Proud father of a son with DS & fighting to keep him off biden's death panels.)
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To: New Perspective
:^) The main problem with Blue Origin is, the managers didn't build the rocket. The company has one, just one, prototype that flies/has flown to space, has a contract to provide the big engine to another aerospace company/NASA, and also plans to use the same big engine in its long-promised New Glenn rocket.

It's pretty clear that there will never be another working launch vehicle from BO, and I'd guess worse than even money that the company will even be able to deliver to its contracted customer.

59 posted on 10/15/2021 9:36:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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