Late Star Trek star James Doohan's remains were successfully blasted into space Saturday morning. The ashes of the actor, who played Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the TV show and its spin-off movies, were flown up in a space rocket from Las Cruces, New Mexico. Following the flight, the remains of the star, who inspired the phrase "Beam me up, Scotty", parachuted down to Earth. The actor's widow, Wende Doohan, was at the launch. She says, "For the amount of emotion that was involved, it was amazing how technical and smoothly everything ran." Doohan died aged 85 in 2005. His ashes were accompanied by the remains of former US astronaut Gordon Cooper and those of 200 other people. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's remains were fired into space in 1997, six years after his death.
- 4/30/2007
- WENN
Star Trek actor James Doohan's last wishes are set to be granted on December 6, when his cremated remains are launched into space. Commercial space flight operator Space Services Incorporated will launch the late actor's remains into space aboard its Explorers Flight, according to a company spokeswoman. She adds that 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. Doohan, who portrayed chief engineer Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott on the Star Trek TV series, died in July at the age of 85. To mark the flight into his final frontier, Doohan's family will hold a service for fans on a site near California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on the day of the launch. The actor's widow, Wende Doohan, says, "I can't think of a more fitting send-off than having some of his fans attend this, his final journey." Doohan's cremated remains will be packed into a special tube which will be 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.
- 10/17/2005
- WENN
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