I was trying to enjoy shatner’s reaction on the blue origin live stream, but couldn’t hear him over the hollering and champagne popping going on around him, which I thought was bizarre because I saw a dude with a boom mic running up to the capsule with the ground crew, it’s like they didn’t put any thought into the sound design of this very televised event

also i felt the champagne popping was pretty gauche for a company that already has a “space is for billionaires” PR problem (I suppose Bezos wouldn’t see the issue, since he interrupted Shatner to pour out a bottle himself, and iirc, tossed the bottle on the desert floor when he was done with it?? lol)