![]() He said: “We need some of the world’s greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live.” I don’t want to lose it.”Īfter the flight, Prince William criticised the space race and burgeoning space tourism industry ahead of his inaugural Earthshot prize awards. I’m so filled with emotion about what just happened. In tears, he added: “What you have just given me is the most profound experience. “Everybody in the world needs to do this,” the Canadian actor told Bezos after landing back on Earth. ![]() From there they were able to see the curvature of the Earth through the capsule’s windows.Ġ3:21 'Most profound experience': William Shatner starstruck by encounter with space – video The crew got to experience a short period of weightlessness as they climbed to a maximum altitude just above 60 miles (100km). Shatner took off from the west Texas desert onboard the Blue Origin suborbital capsule, with his flight lasting 10 minutes. We’ve got enough crap flying around up there. I remember watching Branson and Bezos going up for their 11 minutes or whatever … ![]() Let’s take care of this planet first before we start going off.”Ĭollins appeared in an episode of the original series of Star Trek, playing a character called Edith Keeler who Captain Kirk, played by Shatner, falls in love with but then allows to die.Īsked if he would visit space, fellow show guest Cox replied: “No, absolutely not. “He was in the air and they were turning him upside down. Who wants to do that? No, absolutely not. It follows comments from the Duke of Cambridge criticising space tourism, and which forced Shatner to justify the trip, saying it was a “baby step” to getting “polluting industries … off of Earth”.Īppearing on The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV, Collins said: “It’s amazing isn’t it? What a fool.
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