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SWaB: William Shatner cried upon returning from space. The “overview effect” explains why

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Re: SWaB: William Shatner cried upon returning from space. The “overview effect” explains why

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Thank you for sharing.
Not only William Shatner was moved to tears. Many of his original fans did.
It is remarkable for a person in his 90's to go fo the mission. Anyone in any age will feel that, ‘something that I didn’t experience before’. And being a man with that legacy, it is something that not any fan would experience, I believe.
Getting old, one starts to appreciate the smallest and the biggest things in a more pure way, ‘the air keeping us alive is thinner tan the skin’ - he said.
William Shatner is just as old as the space technology race. Sci-Fi has a good part of science behind it, it is not a fantasy series. And now he participated in an important manned mission with precise landing control. Unbelievable strength and legacy of the man.
Number, Letter, Note: Know, Think, Dream.
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