Scotty’s Off To Space – Science News – Playfuls.com – Science & Technology — Geez, talk about taking a role seriously.
It seems that actor James Doohan, Star Trek’s Scotty, indeed has a legacy to reach the final frontier as his ashes will reach space aboard a private rocket.
Along with James Doohan’s cremated remains will also travel the ashes of one of NASA’s first space travelers, Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, aboard a privately-built rocket set to launch from New Mexico this month.
The launch of a SpaceLoft XL rocket built by the private firm UP Aerospace is scheduled for April 28. SL-2, as it has been dubbed, will lift off from Spaceport America, a state-funded launch site near Upham, New Mexico and about 45 miles 72 kilometers north of the city of Las Cruces.
As you were probably wondering from the very beginning what the meaning of this could be, here is the answer. This is part of a special spaceflight that is a tribute – some 200 families have paid 495 U.S. dollars to have a few grams of their loved ones ashes placed on the rocket.
So long, Scotty. Thanks for the wonderful memories.
He’s dead Jim.
You get his tricorder, I’ll grab his wallet.
This is a cool project and all, but I sure hope the rocket doesn’t malfunction before it gets to space……
1, Mac Guy, Amen
And then, his ashes will smack against the ISS and will knock it down.
How much does it cost if you’re still alive and want to be killed to have your ashes taken there?
If we were to send his sperm out into space, it really wouldn’t be long until we found life on other planets. ;->
Hope he held back a little in reserve, so the Cap’n in the Sky will think he routinely pulls off the impossible. “I’m givin’ ye all she’s got, Cap’n!”
Clear sailing, Scotty.
Ya know, for all the crap science NASA has brought up — such as, fruit flies humping — they would provide these sorts of interments as extra packages aboard space shuttles.
Cooper was one of them, and Doohan was certainly very influential to future scientists.
On a related note, the Large Hadron Collider goes online this year. If the USA was more interested in the real future, and not spreading imperial consumerism, then perhaps this could’ve been in Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, or some other suitable American state.
Your mom. :-p
You know, just because it’s possible, I’m going to post the most ignored missive ever, Just like the US Congress messed up the most important pure science project the US ever had.
Congress fries the Superconducting Supercollider. Morons.
“14 miles of tunneling were completed and two billion dollars spent.
The laboratory, located South of Dallas, TX, is in the final shutdown phase.”
http://www.hep.net/ssc/
Representative Jerks. Did we actually elect these idiots?