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Captain Kirk Tweets the Space Station
You know that you’re living in a very special point in time when you can watch a man who became famous playing a starship captain on television send a tweet to a man who’s actually working in a spaceship orbiting the Earth — and get an amusing response back.
Which is exactly what happened earlier today when William Shatner got a reply from Chris Hadfield, currently part of the Expedition 34 crew aboard the ISS. For many people Shatner was the first starship captain remembered from TV in the late ’60s, and in a couple of months Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian astronaut to assume command of the International Space Station.
(Shatner, by the way, is also from Canada. Hm…maybe there’s something more going on here…)
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Post tags: Canada, Chris Hadfield, ISS, Kirk, Star Trek, tweet, Twitter, william shatner
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2013-01-03 18:01:14
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/99269/captain-kirk-tweets-the-space-station/
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A more apt message would have been “Beam me up Scotty, there is no sign of intelligent life here.”