![]() so in an abundance of caution I was asked to tell the family ‘Let’s not make a big deal out of it publicly’.” “The concern afterwards was that it could disrupt relations because I didn’t have permission. “Everything that officially goes on board is logged, inspected and bagged - there’s a process, but there was no time to put it through that process,” he said. He then hid the cards within the flight data file, which was cleared for the flight (the cards were not). He printed three cards with Doohan’s photo on them, sprinkling ashes inside and then laminating them. “I said, ‘I’m in quarantine in Kazakhstan… but if you can get the ashes to me, I’ll find a way of getting them aboard.’ A couple of days before flight, this package arrived and I made a plan,” Garriott said. That was when Doohan’s son, Chris, contacted Garriott, days before he was scheduled to embark on a $30 million missing to spend 12 days aboard the ISS, via a Russian Soyuz capsule. Now enough time has passed that we can,” he explained.Īccording to The Times, a 2007 attempt to send some of Doohan’s ashes into orbit on a suborbital rocket failed. “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 for so long. “It was completely clandestine,” said Garriott, revealing his mission was at the behest of Doohan’s family, who wanted to fulfill the late actor’s wish to have his remains make it to the final frontier. In an interview with The Times, video game developer Richard Garriott revealed for the first time ever how he was able to smuggle Doohan’s ashes onto the International Space Station when he spent 12 days in orbit as the world’s sixth-ever “space tourist.” However, according to a new interview, it appears that death was not the end of Doohan’s journey. ![]() The actor who played Scotty in the original series and on the big screen, Vancouver-born James Doohan, passed away in 2005. Scotty, was always at the ready to beam the back aboard the Enterprise. Spock and other members of the “Star Trek” crew got themselves into a jam, engineer James Montgomery Scott, a.k.a. “Beam me up Scotty” Has completely new meaning now as the ashes of James Doohan the actor looks down on us all.Īshes Of Late James Doohan, Scotty From ‘Star Trek’, Were Smuggled Onto International Space Station ![]() The actor’s ashes and a photo of him laminated are hidden under the floor of the Columbus module of the I.S.S. In 2008 Richard Garriot was a private astronaut on the space station and had access and time to smuggle “Scotty’s” ashes aboard.Īfter being contacted by the actor’s son Chris only days before a launch on a RUSSIAN capsule, Mr garriot agreed to take the ashes aboard in an unprecedented and secretive way. The Canadian actor’s remains in part were smuggled aboard the space station and have now travelled more than 1.7 billion miles in space in an incredible story of the most amazing “last request” ever. James Doohan, the actor asked for his ashes to be ‘beamed’ into space when he died in 2005 aged 85 years old. In secret “Scotty’s “ashes have travelled 1.7 billion miles in total. It’s understood the ashes of James Doohan the actor who played “Scotty” in Star Trek are actually in space because they were smuggled aboard the international space centre by Richard Garriott (59) in 2008. The actor James Doohan who played “Scotty” in the sci-fi series Star Trek is truly in space. Część prochów aktora od 12 lat spoczywa w module Columbusīy Mark Reynolds -26 December 2020 13:170
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