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Captain Kirk Hails the Space Station

by Nancy Atkinson on February 7, 2013

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Ah, the nerdy joys of living in the 21st century! Chris Hadfield, an astronaut on board the International Space Station and William Shatner, who portrayed someone in space, were able to talk to each other live. After Captain Kirk opened hailing frequencies, Hadfield replied — using some Star Trek sound effects. Needless to say, when science fiction and reality collide like this, it is an epic day in nerdom.

Screenshot from the Canadian Space Agency's live UStream webcast of the Hadfield/Shatner event.

Screenshot from the Canadian Space Agency's live UStream webcast of the Hadfield/Shatner event.

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Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the host of the NASA Lunar Science Institute podcast and works with the Astronomy Cast and 365 Days of Astronomy podcasts. Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador.

Tagged as: Chris Hadfield, Space Station, Star Trek, william shatner

  • http://www.webpak.net/~dslalton/ Deepsky_hunter

    “Condition green Kirk out”

  • Mike Petersen

    There’s Spock…scratching his head. There’s Scotty, in objvious pain, because Kirk’s head is stuffed…where the sun don’t shine on Scotty. And Kirk is yelling, “Spock! I said beam me up COMMA Scotty!!!”

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XHDHOUFQDCIPTM5FDOSZFIKSX4 Al

    Ah, the nerdy joys of living in the 21st century! Chris Hadfield, an astronaut on board the International Space Station and William Shatner, who portrayed a someone in space, were able to talk to each other live. After Captain Kirk opened hailing frequencies, Hadfield replied using some Star Trek sound effects. Needless to say, when science fiction and reality collide like this, it is an epic day in nerdom.

  • Victorinox

    I think the best part of this is seeing how much Chris Hadfield enjoys the whole scifi/Star Trek thing. From the sound effects, to the references used, (not only this time, but also on twitter) it just makes me happy that “one of us geeks” is up there :-)

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