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Raumfahrt - Ashes of Star Trek’s Scotty smuggled on to International Space Station A secret mission to give James Doohan a celestial resting place has been revealed 12 years on

27.12.2020

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Before his death in 2005 James Doohan asked to be laid to rest among the stars
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As one of Star Trek’s most beloved characters, Montgomery “Scotty” Scott spent a lifetime exploring the galaxy on the USS Enterprise, boldly going beyond the final frontier.

Now it can be revealed that in death the actor who played the starship’s chief engineer has travelled nearly 1.7 billion miles through space, orbiting Earth more than 70,000 times, after his ashes were hidden secretly on the International Space Station.

“It was completely clandestine,” said Richard Garriott, a video game entrepreneur who smuggled James Doohan’s ashes on to the ISS in 2008 during a 12-day mission as a private astronaut.“His family were very pleased that the ashes made it up there but we were all disappointed we didn’t get to talk about it publicly

Quelle: The Times

 

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