I watched the flight live on YouTube. Pretty neat. Shatner was pretty emotional when he exited the capsule. I hope by the time I 90 years old the cost of the flight is maybe a few hundred dollars. In my dreams. The capsule ascended to just over 351,000 feet.
Warp factor one Mr. Sulu.
Good for him! For the rest of us, aside from the select few, we can still dream to go up there.
I saw that - kinda poetic, Kirk in space. Whoever designed that rocket/capsule combo had a sense of humor…lol
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“If you ask me…and you haven’t…I think this is a terrible idea. We’re bound to run into the Klingons, and they don’t exactly like you.”
Good for him! I’ll just have to hope that they start installing Garmin flight decks in these things so I can fix one of them and then say “OK…now I just have to go with you on a test flight.”
Every time I see that ship I think the same thing.
To boldly go… on his favorite ride and in his symbolic style.
On another note, I wonder if he flipped his wig.
I wondered if they had enough fuel to provide the necessary additional thrust to get him up there.
No problem.
They used the new dilithium crystal boosters. [;)]
I saw the whole thing. When the main rocket (otherwise known as engineering) landed while the upper fins were still out it looked like a alien life form with those big black areas at the top.
I think all the people who were starship captains should go up. Maybe the more importand crew members could go up in the other ship that detaches from its mothership.
Anybody who goes up just has to remember not to wear a red shirt. You don’t want to be that guy.
Thanks everyone, for joining in.
There was one minor problem, though, when Shatner started yelling that there was a man outside on the hull. They had to sedate him.
“She was shakin’ in every rrrivet, Cap’n. They’ll never believe this back at the yard!”.
I liked the part where Bozos interrupted Shatner to open a bottle of champagne.
Real classy.
Other than that, it was really a neat thing to watch, wasn’t it? I still can’t get used to those boosters landing upright like a corny old sci-fi movie. So cool.
Whoever ran the press op for that should have to walk home.
I thought Shatner really expressed well that he was pretty much scared to death and the site of actually leaving earth behind was overwhelming.
I liked watching it too. But it’s always scary because the death rate for going to space is high, something like 3%.
Bill
I thought so too, Bill.
So glad everything went smoothly. Amazing stuff.
Another thing that amazed me was that on Alan Shepard’s recovery (and all subsequent recoveries through Apollo), an entire aircraft carrier, crew, and it’s support ships and some aircraft were required.
This morning it was a couple guys in a pickup truck. [:D]
It’s a shame that 3rd Rock From the Sun isn’t on anymore, John Lithgow could have had another Big Head moment.
Duhuhyah, space is awesome!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XD66suMp3J4
“Hullo. Jeff. Bozos.” [:D]
All kidding aside, it is remarkable that non-astronauts can make trips to space now. But you have to remember, everything out there can kill you - heat, cold, vacuum, radiation, micro meteors, bad food and no showers. The Final Frontier is not really a playground for the premium coffee twitter fail crowd.