Going to Space with William Shatner

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🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

What was it like to send Captain Kirk to space? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with William Shatner to discuss his trip into space, Star Trek, and musings about life on Earth.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.8	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.4	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.8	This is Star Talk.
0:16.9	Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.5	And today we have a very special guest, not just a special guest, a very special guest.
0:27.2	Returning to Star Talk, we have William Schattner, the one and only, the beloved actor portrayed
0:35.9	Captain Kirk on the Starship Enterprise in the original Star Trek series and movies
0:41.1	that followed it some years later.
0:44.8	And he's of special interest right now because he was onboard the suborbital flight of
0:50.3	Blue Origins' new shepherd space capsule.
0:53.8	This is a 10 minute journey where you go across the Carmen line.
0:58.9	That's the line where you enter space.
1:02.1	And he was the oldest person to ever do this at age 90.
1:06.3	Let's get straight into this.
1:09.0	So William Schattner, can I call you Bill?
1:11.3	Is that work?
1:12.3	Yes, if I can call you a name.
1:13.8	Yeah, please, please, by all means.
1:16.9	So you start out life as wanting to be an actor.
1:22.4	Yeah.
1:23.4	Well, I mean, I must have emerged from my mother's womb not knowing what to do.
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