Shatner Says We’re ‘Inseminating the Space Program’ When Cooper Pokes Fun at the Rocket’s Shape

EXCERPT:

COOPER: "Yeah. Some people made fun of the way the rocket looks, but I think it's cool, I like it, I think — the weightless thing, I think, would be fun."

SHATNER: "Well, no, there's nothing to be — nothing to make fun up. We're inseminating the space program."

(Laughter)

COOPER: "You know what, I threw that out there, I didn't know if you're going to pick up on it and you did and I love you for it."

SHATNER: "Well, leave it to you to throw that out there, for somebody else to pick it up. (Laughter) But it certainly does look — when they say insertion, do they really mean insertion?"

COOPER: "Yeah."