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Himself to space this summer. so they went 65 miles up, at more than 2,000 miles an hour, okay? and the most captivating show ended up being on the ground after. why? because of shatner's completely authentic, human, just sense of being overwhelmed by what he just experienced. it's worth a watch. >> so moving. this experience, it's something unbelievable. you see -- weightlessness, my stomach went up, it's so weird. but not as weird as the covering of blue. oh, it's one thing to say, oh, the sky and the fragile -- but what is unknown is this pillow,

Weightlessness for about three minutes of their journey. i'm trying to look at the video and also tell you the story at the same time. this is amazing. shatner was emotional after he returned to earth and greeted by jeff bezos, the owner of blue origin. >> suddenly you're through the blue and you're into black and you're into, you know, it's mysterious and galaxies and things but what you see is black. and what you see down there is light. and that's the difference. and not to have this? you have done something. i mean, whatever those other guys are doing, what isn't -- they don't -- i don't k...

Little things. weightlessness. but to see the blue color go right by. and now, you're staring at the black. that's the thing. the covering of blue is -- the sheet, this blanket, this -- this kocomforter of blue that w have around. we think oh, that's blue sky. and you rip a sheet off of you when you are asleep and you are looking into blackness. into black ugliness. and you look down. there's the blue down there. and the black up there. and it's -- it's just -- there is mother earth and comfort. and there is -- is there death? i don't know. is that the way death is? and it's gone. jesus. >> mo...

Call it. >> training. i think of it as rehearsal. i want to go to warp speed. take me to warp speed and they go "what"? and the weightlessness. you're thin enough but i'm not. imagine being weightless and staring into that blackness and seeing the earth. that's what i want to absorb. >> it goes by fast. on bezos's flight they were throwing skittles at each other. i would want to be staring out at the window the whole time. >> i want to press my nose up against the plastic window. what i don't want to see is somebody else out there looking back at me. no, we don't want that one. >> oh, my god, ...

Jeopardy. the -- the -- the -- the moment you see how vul -- the vulnerability of everything, it's so small. this air which is keeping us alive is -- is thinner than your skin. it's -- it's a -- it's a -- it's a sliver. it's -- it's immeasurably small when you think in terms of the -- of the universe. >> william shatner today experience clearly exceeding expectations he said certainly when we spoke just last week. >> i'm looking forward to the whole thing. i've been there. i was there last week rehearsing. whatever they call it. >> training, i think, is what they call it. but, you know, rehear...