In an interview with the BBC World Service Radio, Patrick Stewart said that he’s not terribly enthused about space travel:
“I’m a bit of a wet blanket when it comes to the whole business of space travel,” he said in a BBC interview.
As commander of the USS Enterprise on the show, his character Captain Jean-Luc Picard is an avid space traveller.
In an interview with BBC World Service radio, Stewart said he backed unmanned missions such as NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity and the UK’s Beagle 2 mission.
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“As I get older my unease at the time and the money that has to be spent on projects putting human beings back to the moon, and on to another planet, is so enormous,” he said. […]
Of all people, I figured he would be somewhat excited about space travel. Still, I can understand his concerns about the costs involved; while I support NASA’s efforts as a whole, I’m not sure how I feel about the proposed Moon Trip II.