Tom Cruise Secretly Trained By NASA
Updated : May 27, 2016 10:35 AM IST
The Mission Impossible star, Tom Cruise cheated death in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster. The star wanted to join the crew of the US Space Shuttle Columbia and had hoped to join the mission after being given secret training by NASA. As part of the training, Cruise underwent an induction course in Florida and was prepared for space walking by wading in a space suit in a water tank.
Toni Myers, who directed Tom on flick Space Station 3D, revealed that, “Tom wanted to be an astronaut, he flies his own GulfStream IV Jet and he’s qualified as a pilot. He was very enthusiastic about doing Space Station 3D but the deal was he also wanted to fly in the Space Shuttle. He had a very good chance of doing so but then the accident happened and that was the end of that.”
Tom has always been interested in astronomy and also played an astronaut in 2013 film Oblivion. The actor has also previously admitted to believing in aliens, something which relates to his religion of Scientology. “It might be a little arrogant to think we were the only ones in all the galaxies throughout the universe but I’ve never met one,” he said.