Vic Ryckaert is an enterprise reporter for WRTV’s digital team. He also covered public safety, government, and development for the Indianapolis Star for more than two decades.
PLANET EARTH — Decades after playing the iconic role of Capt. James T. Kirk in the Star Trek television shows and movies, William Shatner got to actually travel to space aboard the Blue Origins rocket in 2021.
In 2021 at age 90, Shatner journeyed to space aboard Amazon owner Jeff Bezos's ship, Blue Orgin. He remains the oldest person to leave Earth's orbit.So WRTV enlisted the aid of its most-veteran nerd to join a handful of Indiana reporters on a zoom call with the legendary actor, arranged by IU's media relations department.
Shatner: I think that's happening without the eclipse. All the countries that are trying to land on the moon and get a survey of the moon and how far advanced America is, at at this point. We will land on the moon. We will make a colony on the moon, there's apparently water there and that's everything.
Question: You celebrated your 93rd birthday last week. How do you keep your energy and productivity so high at this stage of your career and life?
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