William Shatner played Captain Kirk on the television series Star Trek but he was unprepared for a real trip into space He called his eleven-minute sub-orbital flight ldquo the most profound experience I can imagine rdquo He stepped out of his rocket and marveled ldquo To see the blue color go right by you and now you're staring into blackness that's the thing rdquo You ldquo look down and there's the blue down there and the black up there rdquo He added The beauty of that color and it's so thin and you're through it in an instant Our planet
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