{"id":154597,"date":"2020-12-28T20:12:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/star-trek-original-scotty-ashes-iss\/"},"modified":"2020-12-28T20:12:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T20:12:34","slug":"star-treks-original-scotty-had-his-ashes-taken-to-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/12\/28\/star-treks-original-scotty-had-his-ashes-taken-to-the-iss\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek’s Original Scotty Had His Ashes Taken To The ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Doohan was a Canadian actor with a long career in films and\u00a0television, but none of his roles were quite as famous or lasting as his time on\u00a0Star Trek<\/em><\/a>. On the classic science fiction show, Doohan played Scotty, the Enterprise’s engineer, and solved many of the various mechanical failures that arose while the crew traveled through space. Now, fifteen years after Doohan’s death, the actor has finally made it to space himself, with just a little bit of subterfuge.<\/p>\n

It was during an interview with The Times<\/em> that Richard Garriott, an American video game developer and entrepreneur revealed that he had smuggled the ashes onto the International Space Station<\/a> during his own time visiting. In 2008, Garriott flew to the ISS for a twelve-day mission, during which he filmed\u00a0Apogee of Fear<\/em>, and, unbeknownst to anyone else, placed Doohan’s ashes aboard the station.<\/p>\n

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Garriott undertook the mission with the consent of Doohan’s son, Chris. According to his son, Doohan’s wish was to have his ashes placed aboard the ISS, but was denied explicit permission to do so on previous trips. This led to Chris Doohan and Richard Garriott conspiring to have the ashes placed somewhere they wouldn’t be noticed.<\/p>\n