{"id":129050,"date":"2021-10-16T00:42:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T07:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/william-shatner-says-duke-of-cambridge-has-got-the-wrong-idea-about-his-space-flight"},"modified":"2021-10-17T01:57:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T08:57:19","slug":"william-shatner-says-duke-of-cambridge-has-got-the-wrong-idea-about-his-space-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/william-shatner-says-duke-of-cambridge-has-got-the-wrong-idea-about-his-space-flight","title":{"rendered":"William Shatner Says Duke of Cambridge Has \u2018Got the Wrong Idea\u2019 About his Space Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/william-shatner-says-duke-of-cambridge-has-got-the-wrong-idea-about-his-space-flight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cidea here is not to go, \u2018Yeah, look at me. I\u2019m in space.\u2019\u201d Instead, he said that \u201cthe prince is missing the point. The point is these are the baby steps to show people [that] it\u2019s very practical. You can send somebody like me up into space.\u201d \u2014 William Shatner<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>William Shatner may be famous for his fictional otherworldly travels thanks to his role in the \u201cStar Trek\u201d universe, however, on October 13 he took a real-life trip that took him to space.<\/p>\n<p>Along with three other passengers, the actor nabbed a spot on Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space capsule, which headed out for a flight that lasted for 11 minutes, according to CNN. While it was obviously an incredible experience for the star, not everyone was impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow \u201cStar Trek\u201d actor George Takei had a few less-than-friendly words to share about Shatner\u2019s space flight, while even Prince William spoke out about the recent space-based trips. Talking to the BBC\u2019s \u201cNewscast,\u201d he addressed whether or not he would be traveling off of our planet and responded by saying he wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cidea here is not to go, \u2018Yeah, look at me. I\u2019m in space.\u2019\u201d Instead, he said that \u201cthe prince is missing the point. The point is these are the baby steps to show people [that] it\u2019s very practical. You can send somebody like me up into space.\u201d \u2014 William Shatner William Shatner may be famous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129101,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129050\/revisions\/129101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}