“Scotty” Blasts Off

On this past Saturday, April 28th, James “Scotty” Doohan’s cremated remains were blasted into suborbital space aboard a rocket launched from the New Mexico desert, along with Apollo 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper, and the remains of several other people who weren’t nearly as important. Doohan actually died back in July of 2005, and follows in the post-mortem footsteps of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, whose remains were also shot into space in 1997.

And so, Scotty has been beamed up for the very last time in this grand finale. More can be read here.

All I can say is, “Damn, that’s how I want to go”. Just, not with 200 other people crammed in there with me.