Beam me up ....and onward to the final frontier

[Vipersan]

'US company SpaceX has become the first commercial outfit to send its own spacecraft toward the International Space Station with the launch of the cargo-bearing Dragon capsule.
On board the flight are the ashes of actor James Doohan, who played engineer Scotty in Star Trek. He died in 2005.

His remains, along with Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper and more than 300 other hardcore space fans, are to be dispatched into the final frontier.

The remains are held in a container with lipstick-tube-sized canisters and, if all goes as planned, the container should spend the next year or so circling Earth as an orbital space memorial before it is pulled back into the atmosphere and incinerated.'

" I know every inch of this ship"
Boldly gone me' old mate......
;)
_http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16232961

 

[Lazarus]

Any Dilithium Crystals going begging?

 

[2cvbloke]

But, if the capsule is going to be in orbit, and then falling back to earth to burn up, then it'll be boldly going where every other spacecraft launched to date has gone before........

If they shot the ashes off into the darkness of space, then maybe they'd be boldly going where no one has gone before....

 

[Vipersan]

If they shot the ashes off into the darkness of space, then maybe they'd be boldly going where no one has gone before....

Personally ...I'd love to see the blue marble with my own eyes before becoming ashes..
But if this is the only option ...
Certainly the way I'd want to be dispatched 2CV...

 

[Channel Hopper]

His remains, along with Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper and more than 300 other hardcore space fans, are to be dispatched into the final frontier.

The remains are held in a container with lipstick-tube-sized canisters and, if all goes as planned, the container should spend the next year or so circling Earth as an orbital space memorial before it is pulled back into the atmosphere and incinerated.'

Not exactly all his remains then, maybe a kneecap and a couple of teeth.

 

[PaulR]

I was under the impression that some of his ashes had already been sent into space.

 

[Channel Hopper]

I was under the impression that some of his ashes had already been sent into space.

Correct

At 8:58 a.m. Mountain Time on 28 April 2007 (and after several delays), some of his ashes were sent about 70 miles above the earth on a private SpaceLoft XL rocket by Houston's Space Services, Inc., a company specializing in such memorials. The rocket was lost for three weeks after the flight but now has been found and all remains are still intact. Also among the participants of this flight were the ashes of US astronaut Gordon Cooper and "Star Trek" (1966) writer/director/producer John Meredyth Lucas, as well as 199 others. Space Services, Inc. had previously sent up the ashes of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and LSD guru Timothy Leary in 1997.