Someone on the crew of the International Space Station is a Star Trek fan. Yesterday, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, flight engineer for Expedition 34, exchanged tweets with none other than James T. Kirk. Hadfield has been active on Twitter, posting pictures from space and answering questions posted to him. The questions included one from William [...] More...
That's just incredibly cool. Does Shatner do his own twittering? umm... tweating? umm... aw hell, I don't even know how it works!
Yeah, "cool" is the perfect word. If it wasn't for Star Trek, I wonder how many astronauts would be in different fields.