The 75-year-old actor said: "I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me..."Looks like the real Captain Kirk won't boldy go where no man had gone before. What a pity.
He added: "I do want to go up but I need guarantees I'll definitely come back."
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Captain Kirk scared of spaceflight
William Shatner, who played the space travelling Captain Kirk in Star Trek, is afraid of... guess what? Spaceflight! He rejected a free ticket to space from Richard Branson onboard Virgin Galactic's first passenger flight in 2008. From Daily Mail:
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The dude is old. He may not even pass the health screening.
haha!!! N looks overweight too.
And it's free!!! Can he pass me his ticket?
I think he was given free tickets because Richard Branson named the Virgin spacecraft Enterprise as a homage to Star Trek.
I don't blame him at all, they only called it enterprise because nasa had taken the name 'fireball of death'.
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