Hard to believe, but William Shatner has never been to space or in zero gravity.
That's right, the man who played Star Trek's Captain Kirk for 28 years and has been a NASA booster for decades has kept his feet firmly planted on the ground.
All that changes in August when Shatner boards the G-Force One, Zero-G's gravity-defying airplane, a Boeing-727 which makes a series of in-flight parabolic arcs to recreate, if only for a few moments, weightlessness. The company announced Shatner's upcoming flight on Wednesday.
Shatner is going where no William Shatner has gone before as part of a Star Trek-inspired fan experience promoted by Zero-G and Roddenberry Adventures, an exploration company founded by the late Gene Roddenberry's son Rod Roddenberry. Read more...
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