I don’t know, but is that death?

Is that the way death is?

It was so moving; this experience, it was something unbelievable," he said (viaCNN).

William Shatner smiling

He also told Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos: “I hope I never recover from this.

I hope that I can maintain what I feel now I don’t want to lose it.

It’s so much larger than me and life” (viaMediaite).

William Shatner aboard the Blue Origin rocket

“I don’t want to be known as the oldest guy in space.

I’m bloody Captain Kirk!”