Born on this day in
1920 – James Doohan, actor who made appearances in Tales of
Tomorrow, Space Command, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Satan
Bug, Star Trek series & 1 -5, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek:
Generations, and Homeboys in Outer Space.
He is best known for his role as USS Enterprise engineer Mr Scott.
He died on 20th July 2005.
A portion of his ashes, ¼ ounce (7 grams), was scheduled the following fall for a memorial flight to space with 308 others, including Project Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper. Launch on the SpaceLoft XL rocket was delayed to April 28, 2007, when the rocket briefly entered outer space in a four-minute suborbital flight before parachuting to earth, as planned, with the ashes still inside. The ashes were subsequently launched on a Falcon 1 rocket, on August 3, 2008, into what was intended to be a low Earth orbit; however, the rocket failed two minutes after launch. The rest of Doohan's ashes were scattered over Puget Sound in Washington. On May 22, 2012, a small urn containing some of Doohan's remains in ash form was flown into space aboard the Falcon 9 rocket as part of COTS Demo Flight 2. (Thanks to his Wikipedia entry for this final paragraph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Doohan#Death)
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