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“All I saw was death.' Actor William Shatner, who joined a suborbital space tourism flight last year, had a very distinct observation when he turned his gaze from the Earth to black expanse of the cosmos

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I felt this overwhelming sadness for the Earth. I didn’t realize it until I got down. When I stepped out of the spacecraft, I started crying. I didn’t know why. It took me hours to understand why I was weeping. I realized I was in grief for the Earth. I don’t want to ever forget, nor have I forgotten, the momentousness of that occasion.

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