William Shatner is a son of a bitch (in the very best sense of the term)

[Kid Berwyn]

Earth as seen from Apollo 14 in lunar orbit…



What the late astronaut Edgar Mitchell observed from the moon:

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”

― Edgar D. Mitchell

The space traveler, known for his portrayal of the fictional Captain Kirk, observed after his return to earth:

Those profound observations of deadly space and our life-supporting home planet were made near-earth, after a sub-orbital flight.