A fitting resting places. I wonder how far they'll get before we have a warp drive.
Bon Voyager! On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Pat wrote: > > From Wired: > > http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/01/star-treks-rodd.html > > "Star Trek's Roddenberrys to Spend Eternity in Space > By Lewis Wallace January 27, 2009 | 2:07:13 PMCategories: Celebrity, > Sci-Fi, Star Trek > > The late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and his recently deceased > wife, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, are headed for space together. > > The Associated Press quotes Susan Schonfeld, a spokeswoman for > "memorial spaceflights" company Celestis, about the couple's eternal > voyage, scheduled for sometime in 2010: > > The couple's cremated remains will be sealed into specially made > capsules designed to withstand the rigors of space travel. A rocket- > launched spacecraft will carry the capsules, along with digitized > tributes from fans. The Roddenberrys' remains -- and the spacecraft -- > will travel ever deeper into space and will not return to Earth. > > Barrett Roddenberry played Nurse Chapel in the '60s television show > her husband created and also gave voice to the starship Enterprise's > computer. She died in December at age 76, and Gene Roddenberry died in > 1991. > > Let's hope Celestis has better luck with this voyage than it did with > the doomed launch of Scotty's remains." > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
