"I thought it would be unknown. What wa eme that you can't just send up any famous actor and have the same reaction as sending you ta? There's no question about this," says shatner. "There's no reason to have pre footage of just any random, famous person who's about to go subordinal... We need someone with space legacy."
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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