Scotty’s smuggled Ashes of Star Trek on the space station


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It’s not like no man has been there before, but it’s close to humanity. As per the deadline, video game developer Richard Garriott announced on Sunday Times That, during a trip to the International Space Station in 2008, he allegedly brought with him ashes associated with actor James Duhan, known as Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, whose Harid engineer. Star TrekUSS Enterprise of Dohan died in 2005 at the age of 85.

According to Garriott, he was approached by the actor’s son, Chris Dohan, while preparing to visit the Russian International Space Station by Russia’s Soyuz TMA-13 ​​mission, for a 12-day self-funded investment, one of the first private citizens to do so. Happened. . Garriott received the Crimsons, but claims that there is not enough time to put them through the official process required to bring objects into flight. He then hid several laminated photos of Dohan, including some of his ashes, boardboard, and secretly slipped a card behind the cladding into the floor of the station’s Columbus module.

“She was completely hidden,” Garriott said Sunday Times, Who also published a video of him with the card at the station. “His family was very happy that the ashes were made there but we were all disappointed. We didn’t like to talk about it in public for so long. Now, enough time has passed that we can.” Was pushed into space, and a third Chris Duhan returned. A separate sample of the actor’s ashes was launched on the SpaceX rocket in 2012.

“We’ll keep this hush-hush for a while,” said Richard, “and we’re here after 12 years,” said the actor’s son. “What he did was touching – it meant a lot to me, a lot to my family. “And that’s what my dad meant. My dad had three passions: space, science and trains. He always wanted to go into space.”