Some of what Celestis calls “participants” in this flight, which the company called its “new frontier” mission, have no connection to space. You don’t have to be in the space business to have your ashes deposited in orbit, but you do have to have nearly $3,000. It will remain in orbit for about a year then burn up as it returns to Earth. That section of the rocket was jettisoned about 10 minutes after launching a capsule full of supplies for the International Space Station. The ashes were in a special container, which SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell confirmed Tuesday was in the second stage of the Falcon rocket. In BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY, James Doohan, tells it like it is in his own friendly, easy style. “I thought wow, he was actually up in the sky, in the place where his work is being used,” Smith said by telephone. His daughter, Robin Smith of Grapevine, Texas, got up very early Tuesday to watch the pre-dawn launch, and said it was fitting. Shrake was an engineer who designed spaceship control instruments for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena After he died in 2007, his family decided that space would be a nice place to send some of his ashes so they spent a few thousand dollars to launch them in space with the Texas-based firm Celestis Inc. Their ashes – and those of about 300 others – were aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that blasted into orbit Tuesday as part of an in-space for-profit burial business. JAMES DOOHAN was an engineer and later Captain of Artillery in World War II, and his Star Trek role of Montgomery Scott, chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise, was based to a great extent on his. Now the three men who made space their lives are also making space their final resting place. It comes from the command Captain Kirk gives his chief engineer, Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott, when he needs to be transported back to the Starship Enterprise. And Bob Shrake spent his work life anonymously helping send NASA’s high-tech spacecraft to other planets. 'Beam me up, Scotty' is a catchphrase and misquotation that made its way into popular culture from the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Original Series.

Gordon Cooper was one of America’s famous Mercury seven astronauts. WASHINGTON – James Doohan, Scotty from “Star Trek,” spent his acting career whizzing through the cosmos.

Beam Me Up, Scotty by James Doohan