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I <3 William Shatner on Twitter

I love how they respond to him, as if he is actually a captain, even more.

Nasa confirmed for huge fucking nerds

This is awesome and priceless and people that work on space stuff are the best people of all time.

Honestly this just about brings me to tears.

Roddenberry, Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols and all the rest of the original Star Trek cast and crew had no small role in making the moon landing as important as it was.  A few years before they set that lunar module down, this little TV show came along and fanned the dream into wildfire with an image of what humanity in space could actually look like—not only peaceful on our own world, endlessly curious, and prosperous enough to pursue it, but an active force for good in the greater universe.  Carrying not what’s most toxic about us, but what’s best about us out to the stars.

Everybody who has worked at NASA or any other space agency for the past 50 years is waiting for the day when that unmanned probe doing a flyby on a comet can be controlled from the bridge of a space-faring vessel.  When we’re not just looking at that comet through a color-coded sonar map, but we can look out a porthole and see it tumbling by with our own eyes.  When as a species we can finally outgrow hate and fear and violence, and turn our faces with joy toward all the beauties and wonders that lie waiting to be discovered.

And every time he does this, Shatner is reminding them of what that hope feels like.

This was too great to not repost.

Literally. Ever get to go to the space Center? call out and ask how many people joined NASA b/c they couldn’t join Starfleet. Star Trek taught generations to dream and those generations have given them the stars in return.

It’s just the best to watch it play out on Twitter. The relationship has been there the whole time; but now we get to see it and it is fucking gorgeous.

I interviewed NASA scientists while I was making a documentary on the human need to explore space.  My absolute favorite question was asking them what inspired them to work for NASA. So many of them smiled at that question and immediately answered Star Trek.

Don’t ever underestimate shows and books and movies like Star Trek inspiring people to dream, and people making that dream a reality.