Hockey legend Jean Beliveau is being beamed up to outer space.
Well, sort of.
The former Montreal Canadiens star will be hooked up through a video link to chat with one of his biggest fans - Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk - aboard the International Space Station.
The event next Monday is being billed by the Canadian Space Agency as a special conversation between the 56-year-old Thirsk and his idol.
A CSA spokesman says the astronaut brought along a photo of Beliveau in uniform for his space voyage.
The record-breaking astronaut, Canada's longest-serving spaceman, is into the fourth month of his six-month stay on the orbiting space lab and is due to return Nov. 23.
