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Scotty To Be 'Beamed Up'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the looking-down-from-above dept.

joel_archer writes "James 'Scotty' Doohan's 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 December 6. Along for the ride will be 120 others including an unidentified astronaut and Mareta West, the astrogeologist who determined the site for the first spacecraft landing on the moon. Fans can post tributes to Doohan at the Space Services Web site. Those messages will be digitized, packed with 'Scotty' and blasted into space."

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  1. Godsend Jimmy by TiredGamer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Everything I've ever heard from fans and co-workers has described James "Jimmy" Doohan as a man who was funny, caring, and a great guy to be with. Unlike certain unnamed Trek actors, he was never too big to attend the smallest convention and he was always pleased just to be there for the fans. He will be truly missed.

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    1. Re:Godsend Jimmy by 1u3hr · · Score: 1, Interesting
      there's something really special about them willing to go that extra mile for their fans (and enjoying it as well) that puts them above others, such as the actor who played Kirk.

      I'm not at all denying Doohan was a great human being; but as an actor he was typecast forever after Trek. Shatner is probably the only one who had a significant post-Trek career, and if that meant not spending so much time signing souvenirs for fanboys to sell on eBay, you shouldn't hold it against him.

  2. From the CNN article.... by max99ted · · Score: 4, Interesting
    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
    Bummer... why couldn't they just fire it off to some random star or something? Like say, the second star on the right?
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  3. This is not good.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This is just stupid. The matter from the bodys of the deceased should stay on earth and be used by plats, then eaten by animals and then eaten by us. Not launched into space - whatif this space burial thing really takes of and millions of kg of ashes is launched every year for a few hundred million years? :(

  4. Scotty's the man by connah0047 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now don't stone me for this, but I am about ten years too young to have grown up with the classic Star Trek. I grew up on TNG and that is by far my favorite. I never really cared for the Classic. However, when I was 14 (I'm now 25) and heard Scotty was coming to town for a Star Trek convention, I was there. I got a couple of autographs, got to shake his hand, and hear him tell stories.

    The thing that impressed me the most about him was that he didn't seem to have a self-inflated "I'm-an-American-Icon" attitude. He had a very gentle "grandfather" like attitude and spoke with a soft voice. James Doohan is the man.

  5. First spacecraft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Mareta West determined the landing site for Luna 9 (the first spacecraft ever to land on the Moon)? I doubt that. Perhaps what the author meant is "the first manned flight ever to land on the moon"?