Really Star-Trekking: Skylab Astronauts Reflect on Life in Outer Space (Video)

Juan Cole 05/16/2013

Three astronauts from the International Space Station did a Google hangout with the stars of “Star Trek: Into Darkness.”

Meanwhile, VOA profiles an earlier generation of Skylab astronauts who risked their lives to find out if humans can live in outer space.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and an adjunct professor, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page