A moving story of hope, family and a little bit of international espionage.
As revealed in a fascinating report from The times in the UK, some of James Doohan’s ashes, Star Trekoriginal from Scotty, now live on board the International Space Station. They have been there since 2008 and so far this has been a secret.
The author of this touching plot was Richard Garriot, a businessman who in 2008 became one of the first private citizens to go to space. After being asked by the Doohan family to help fulfill the wishes of the late James – finding his way into space after his death – Garriot and Doohan’s son, Chris, devised a plan, which involved secretly stealing a laminated card containing some of the ash from Doohan on the International Space Station.
It was completely clandestine … His family was very pleased that the ashes were there, but we were all disappointed that we hadn’t talked about it publicly for so long. Now enough time has passed so that we can ”, Garriott said.
The plan was drawn up after Garriott he had already registered his items for the trip, so to make sure it was done, he kept it secret from those responsible for the mission. What do I think is a crime? It looks like some kind of crime. But it is perhaps the most exciting crime I can imagine.
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That would end up being the the first time, Doohan’s ashes landed in space, but it wasn’t the last. Some were also transported to space aboard a SpaceX rocket in 2012, after a failed flight In 2008.
“Richard said ‘We need to keep this silence for a while’ and here we are 12 years later. What he did was play – it meant a lot to me, a lot to my family and it would have meant a lot to my dad, ”said Chris Doohan.
James Doohan, who played Scotty in the original Star Trek, died in 2005 and has been in space since 2008. Allegedly, its ashes have traveled nearly 1.7 billion miles through space, orbiting the planet more than 70,000 times. Really irradiate me.
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