Alton Brown...In Space!

Well, almost.

Cooking with Phasers! hero and "Good Eats" host Alton Brown had the chance earlier this month to have a special video chat.

At 1730 UTC Monday the 12th, I entered a small studio in Atlanta and had a video chat (via NASA Mission Control in Houston) with International Space Station Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria who was about 175 nautical miles over my head at the time.

Besides holding the record for American EVAs (that’s space walks dontcha know) turns out Commander Lopez-Alegria, is quite a Good Eats fan not to mention an accomplished cook.

Doesn't get much geekier, not to mention cooler, than that.