"What you have given me, is the most profound experience I could imagine. I’m so filled with emotion, about what’s just happened — it’s extraordinary. It’s extraordinary. I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now — I don’t want to lose it. It’s so … so much larger than me and life and it hasn’t got anything to do with the little green planet and the blue orb — it has to do with the enormity — at the quickness and the suddenness of life and death and then oh my God!"
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Speaking to Jeff Bezos, after his return to Earth, after becoming the oldest human to have as yet travelled into space, aboard a New Shepard spacecraft for the Blue Origin NS-18 space mission; quoted in "William Shatner Describes His Experience in Space" by MaryLiz Bender, in Cosmic Perspective (13 October 2021)
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William Shatner
William "Bill" Shatner, OC (born March 22, 1931), is a Canadian actor, author, producer, director, and singer best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, Captain of the USS Enterprise, in the Star Trek franchise. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek, and has co-written several novels set in the Star Trek universe. He has also written a series of science fiction novels called TekWar which was adapted for television.
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