Scotty's last wish came true

The Canadian actor James Doohan was certainly best known for the role of Montgomery Scott, Scotty for short, in Star Trek. Anyone who has ever seen an episode of a soap opera or a movie remembers the line: "Beam me up, Scotty!"

Doohan's wish was that his remains, or at least part of them, would "see" the universe. His relatives (he died in 2005) naturally wanted to fulfill his wish, but the matter was anything but simple. The first seven grams of James' ashes, along with the ashes of 308 others, were sent into space on April 28, 2007 on a SpaceLoft XL rocket, which reached suborbital space for a few minutes before (as planned) descending back to Earth by parachute. Doohan's second posthumous spaceflight occurred on 3. in August 2008 aboard SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket, which went down after just over two minutes of flight by evil. Well, it went well in the third - astronaut Richard Garriott "smuggled" the capsule with Doohan's remains on board the Columbus module and hid it under the floor covering. Columbus is 14. in October 2008 successfully reached the International Space Station and Scotty "lived" on it for ten days, then returned to Earth on Soyuz TMA 12, where his son Chris (who also played Scotty in three films) took over the capsule.

Richard Garriott spoke about the whole thing only recently, knowing that NASA would not be the most enthusiastic about the idea and implementation. But now, according to him, enough time has passed...

Here is the laminated card that @RichardGarriott gave to me. #startrek @NASAJPL #nasa pic.twitter.com/MS4wv2DJoy

— Chris Doohan (@ChrisDoohan) December 26, 2020

Source: Twitter

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