“Well, leave it to you to throw it out there for somebody else to pick up,” Shatner told Cooper, who was, by then, coming down from his laughing fit. We’re inseminating the space program,” Shatner deadpanned to a busting-up Cooper, who said he wondered whether Captain Kirk realized what he was even referencing. “It’s a little scary, I gotta tell ya,” Shatner said.Ĭooper then noted that “some people made fun of the way the rocket looks,” a reference to the long, cylindrical shape of the vehicle. Blue Origin Billionaire Jeff Bezos went to the edge of space on Tuesday in Blue Origin 's New Shepard rocket. Shatner confessed that, until Cooper played a clip of it, he hadn’t seen “all that fire and brimstone” when the Bezos-carrying rocket took off over the summer. Jul 23, 2021, 12:27 IST A view of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. And in a laughter-filled interview with “AC 360°” host and chronic giggler Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, the infamously phallic shape of Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket arose in the discussion - and a tawdry turn took flight. The “Star Trek” icon, 90, will lift off and head skyward on October 12 in the same capsule used by billionaire Jeff Bezos back in July. Blue Origin is only doing suborbital flights so because of that, their booster can be much shorter, but because they also wanted plenty of space in the crew capsule, it has a large. William Shatner is cloaking his fear with laughter. Answer (1 of 7): Theres a few reasons, sizes of the booster and capsule, aerodynamics, and emergency abort systems. Blue Origin is only doing suborbital flights so because of that, their booster can be much shorter, but because they also wanted plenty of space in the crew capsule, it has a large diameter. We found tickets for all of William Shatner’s 11 “Star Trek” shows Former Research Engineer at NASA (20052016) 1 y Theres a few reasons, sizes of the booster and capsule, aerodynamics, and emergency abort systems. Here’s how to see him & 18 more stars over 80 on tour ‘Verified’ Twitter chaos: Stephen King, William Shatner keep blue checks as Pope, Kim Kardashian lose theirs William Shatner reveals why he has no plans to return to space The jests he shared with journalist Kara Swisher, host of the Beverly Hills event, focused on the phallic shape of the New Shepard suborbital rocket ship built by Blue Origin, Bezos’ space.
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