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Subj : Re: Remains of Star Trek's 'Scotty' headed for space
To   : rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv,alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : whodunit
Date : Fri Oct 14 2005 23:20:46

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

ANIM8Rfsk wrote:
> Remains of Star Trek's 'Scotty' headed for space
> 
> 
> LOS ANGELES, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Evidently "Star Trek" actor James "Scotty"
> Doohan took the catchphrase "beam me up" very seriously -- his cremated
> remains will be launched into space in accord with his last wishes.
> 
> Commercial space flight operator Space Services Inc. will launch the late
> actor's remains into space aboard its Explorers Flight on Dec. 6, a company
> spokeswoman said on Friday.
> 
> She said the remains of more than 120 others will be aboard the flight,
> including those of an unidentified astronaut and Mareta West, the
> astrogeologist who determined the site for the first spacecraft landing on
> the moon.
> 
> Space Services spokeswoman Susan Schonfeld declined to identify the
> astronaut whose cremated remains will be launched into space. She said the
> name would be announced the day of the launch.
> 
> Doohan, who portrayed feisty chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the
> "Star Trek" television series, died in July at age 85. On the program, when
> Capt. James Kirk ventured off the spaceship Enterprise and faced peril, he
> would demand Scotty "beam" his body up to the safety of the ship.
> 
> The actual phrase "Beam me up, Scotty," was not used on the show, but it
> entered pop culture.
> 
> To mark the flight into his final frontier, Doohan's family will hold a
> service for fans on a 60-acre (24-hectare) site near Vandenberg Air Force
> Base north of Los Angeles the day of the launch to pay tribute to him. Some
> fans are expected to attend in the formal white suit of a Star Fleet
> commander.
> 
> "I can't think of a more fitting send-off than having some of his fans
> attend this, his final journey," his widow, Wende Doohan, said in an open
> invitation to the service.
> 
> "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry also had his remains shot into space
> after his death in 1991. They returned to Earth in 2002, Schonfeld said.
> 
> Doohan's cremated remains will be packed into a special tube that is ejected
> from the rocket and expected to orbit Earth for about 50 to 200 years before
> plunging into the planet's atmosphere and burning up.
> 
> Fans can post tributes to Doohan at the Space Services Web site
> (http://www.spaceservicesinc.com). Those messages will be digitized, packed
> with "Scotty" and blasted into space.
> 
> (Additional reporting by Arthur Spiegelman)
>  
This sounds like his *whole* body is going up. IIRC, it's only *1* GRAM.
That's like, a paperclip's worth.

Carolyne in TX

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