I gotta admit that when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos went into space my response was: meh, who cares?
It was worse when he returned and “thanked” Amazon employees and customers for making it possible for a super rich man to go on the most expensive 10 minute vacation ever. As an Amazon customer, I was kind of insulted, like maybe if you charged less for products perhaps you could have not gone on $5.5 billion trip. Or even better, maybe spent that to help with scientific research (if he wanted to help space exploration).
But seeing my childhood hero, Captain James T. Kirk go into space, well that’s something else!
Actual image of William Shatner looking out the window of the Blue Origin Spacecraft
Upon returning Shatner stated: "What you have given me is the most profound experience, I am so filled with emotion, just extraordinary, I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now." Shatner is now the oldest person to enter space (except for the abductees of course), at 90 years old. Boldly going, where no 90 year old has gone before!