Now that “The Big Bang Theory” has given a fan a trip to outer space, I was wondering if Simon Helberg has any thought of doing it for real?
Simon Helberg, 31, who plays Caltech engineer Howard Wolowitz, was at Comic-Con when a fan of “The Big Bang Theory” was awarded the $95,000 trip aboard XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx RLV by Warner Bros. Television. At that time, he joked that he should have called out his own name instead of the winner, but the reality is, according to the Los Angeles, Calif.-born actor, he might not be quite ready for blast-off.
In the season finale of “The Big Bang Theory,” newly married Wolowitz was launched into space aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule to accompany the telescope he built. But Helberg says in real life, he thinks there are easier ways to see the planet.