Archive - May 6, 2010
Trek Fan Boldly Goes Where Gene & Jimmy Have Gone Before
By Captain Pyke | May 6, 2010 - 10:32 pm
On April 21, 1997, a capsule was launched into orbit aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from near the Canary Islands. The little spacecraft carried partial remains of Gene Roddenberry and several others into low earth orbit and eventually deteriorated and it disintegrated in the atmosphere. Then on April 28, 2007, a SpaceLoft XL rocket launched a portion of James Doohan's remains into a four-minute suborbital flight before parachuting to earth. Both flights were operated by Celestis, a Houston, Texas-based aerospace company and a leader in public participation spaceflight.
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