A few hours ago, William Shatner sent a message to a spacecraft far above the surface of our planet, inquiring about the shipboard activities of Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut who is currently documenting an extended stay on the International Space Station.
William Shatner uses personal communicator to transmit message to space
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@cmdr_hadfield Are you tweeting from space? MBB
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) January 3, 2013
Hadfield, who has passed his time on the ISS with cultural enrichment, replied in the affirmative.
@williamshatner Yes, Standard Orbit, Captain. And we're detecting signs of life on the surface.
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) January 3, 2013
Hadfield then reminded Shatner of a previous interaction, this one involving a miniature duplicate of the astronaut — an image Shatner would later retransmit to his own audience of millions. Hadfield himself will likely continue sending missives from the ISS until May, when his mission concludes.
The last time @williamshatner and I met was in another dimension - 2D. (From @csa_asc contest - asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/missions/e… …) twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/…
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) January 3, 2013
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