Kevin Hart Rejected An Offer To Go To Space And Here's Why

Actor and comedian Kevin Hart could have gone to space, but he rejected the offer over fears about safety and out of a desire to stay alive for his family.

"I was offered a seat on a shuttle to space, and the offer came with them wanting to document a celebrity's experience," Hart said his SiriusXM show Straight From the Hart (via Entertainment Weekly). "They said they wanted to document my experience from start to finish and have me complete it. All around the trip, and learning or whatever, I guess, they said X amount of days--it was like 30, 45 days of spending time with a team--and then you're looking at like an hour and a half, a 60-90 minute trip."

Hart rejected the deal (he declined to comment on the company that offered him the deal or the value of the deal, saying the number is not important) because he didn't want to put his life potentially in danger.

"You know what I said to them? Here's what I said to him. I said, 'I would love to know the record of space shuttles that made it versus the ones that didn't. What's the record of success versus non-success?' And that's my reason," Hart said. "That number's too close. Yeah, it's too close. Like it's not, it's not a crazy upside-down number one way or the other… And that's that for me."

If Hart were older, and his children were grown up, then a trip to space might be something he would be interested in to "punctuate" his life with, he said. "At this point, when you've got these little ones--nah, I can't f**k around with space at this point."

While Hart is not going to space anytime soon, Hollywood star Tom Cruise is blasting off to space on a SpaceX rocket to make a new movie with The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman. Jurassic World studio Universal is paying for the $200 million movie, which will be produced in conjunction with SpaceX and NASA.

Hart recently wrapped up filming his role as Roland on the Borderlands movie, which is expected to be released in 2022.

In other news about rich people going into space, billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos went to the edge of space earlier this month.