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Space to be final resting place for 'Beam me up Scotty' actor
Oct 15, 2005, 12:01 GMT
Washington - James Doohan, who played Scotty in the Star Trek television series, will get his final resting place in space in December.
Doohan's ashes are due to be blasted into space on a commercial rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Base, along with the remains of some 170 other people, a private company that organizes 'space burials' said Friday.
Doohan, a Canadian who died in July at age 85, is forever linked to four iconic words - 'Beam me up, Scotty,' the request by other Enterprise crew members when they returned from space adventures.
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's ashes were shot into space in the 1990s, and Doohan's family says he wanted to join him there when he died.
Plans for Doohan's December 6 space funeral have created such a buzz among Trekkies worldwide that the company, Houston-based Space Services Inc., plans a public memorial event at Vandenberg the day before the launch.
On the company's website, his widow Wende C. Doohan is urging fans to send tributes so they can be sent into space with him.
Space Services says the latest flight - the biggest ever - also includes the remains of people from the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Russia, the Netherlands and Britain.
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