http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/02/27/shatner-to-virgin-cease-and-desist/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/02/27/shatner-to-virgin-cease-and-desist/comment-page-1/#comment-12246 Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:43:29 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/02/27/shatner-to-virgin-cease-and-desist/#comment-12246 […] It would seem that this issue was definitively settled early this year, when William Shatner made it clear he’s not a Virgin Galactic customer. But since his name still appears as one of several celebrities reportedly flying on SpaceShipTwo, Shatner made it bluntly clear to the British media that he is a bit, well, scared, of flying in space: “I’m interested in man’s march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.” (I think in the case of a fiery crash, the vomit won’t be hovering for long, but anyway… Shatner, who was offered a free ticket from Richard Branson, did note that “I do want to go up but I need guarantees I’ll definitely come back.” […]

]]> http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/02/27/shatner-to-virgin-cease-and-desist/comment-page-1/#comment-11382 Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:42:55 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/02/27/shatner-to-virgin-cease-and-desist/#comment-11382 […] The Mirror reports that Hilton would join a number of other celebrities planning to fly on SpaceShipTwo, including William Shatner, Kate Moss, and Sigourney Weaver. However, Weaver told an online publication that she has no plans to spend a “staggering $100,000″ on such a flight (staggering, perhaps, since it would be a 50% discount on the current going rate). She said she worried she has already been to space “so many times in my imagination”, and worried that the real thing might not live up to expectations. It true, it wouldn’t the first time that a celebrity denied reports about signing up with Virgin Galactic: earlier this year William Shatner denied reports he was a customer, even asking “Who the heck wants to go out into space?!” […]

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