The rocket carrying the cremated remains of James Doohan has come back to earth - but nobody knows exactly where
Posted on 05/11/2007 6:27:13 AM PDT by bedolido
Beaming him up was the easy part - the problem was transporting him back to Earth.
A search team continues to look for a rocket carrying ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on Star Trek, almost two weeks after it hurtled to the edge of space from New Mexico.
Remains of the Canadian-born actor, who died two years ago at the age of 85, blasted off from a remote launch site on April 29 carrying a payload that included the ashes of astronaut Gordon Cooper and several experiments.
A spokeswoman for Houston-based Space Services Inc, which organised the "memorial spaceflight," says the telephone-pole sized rocket descended by parachute into a rugged area that a search team has repeatedly failed to reach.
"The terrain is very mountainous; it's not somewhere that you can walk or drive to. My understanding is that it will take some time to get up into there," Susan Schonfeld said.
"They know the general location, and we have the utmost confidence that they will recover it."
Schonfeld says the search had been hampered by "horrendous" weather in the desert state, but expected the Up Aerospace Spaceloft XL craft to be recovered in coming days.
Doohan played the starship Enterprise's chief engineer Montgomery Scott in the original 1966-1969 Star Trek television series.
He inspired the legendary catch phrase "Beam me up, Scotty" - even though it was never actually uttered on the show.
Hundreds of spectators clapped and cheered as his ashes roared aloft along with those of some 200 other people, including astronaut Gordon Cooper, who first went into space in 1963 and died in 2004 at age 77.
The rocket carrying the cremated remains of James Doohan has come back to earth - but nobody knows exactly where
Great link.
This was very much a short suborbital hop. They could have accomplished the same thing with a slingshot.
OK, then I guess I’ve missed something. Are the ashes orbiting earth but can no longer be tracked, or did the orbit decay?
Thanks!
More affordable suborbital space tourism is viewed as a money-making proposition by several other companies, including Space Adventures, Virgin Galactic, Starchaser, Blue Origin, Armadillo Aerospace, XCOR Aerospace, Rocketplane Limited, the European "Project Enterprise", and others. Most are proposing vehicles that make suborbital flights peaking at an altitude of 100-160 kilometres. Passengers would experience three to six minutes of weightlessness, a view of a twinkle-free starfield, and a vista of the curved Earth below. Projected costs are expected to be about $200,000 per passenger.
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That is beautiful devolve! Looks like you spent a lot of time on it. Twinkling BG and the earth area is really pretty!
I have a wonderful spinning earth globe! It came from a ‘topological’ site and the original was large and about 1 1/2meg!!
I have downsized it some but haven’t made it all TP yet
Lol, I made a Gore-Atlas with a fiery globe. Gore’s head looks funny at the angle it has to be.
Beautiful image you made!!
-512x384-201K- -128 colors now-
I set it at 1000x750
The 1024x768 one I did is 755K with over 118,000 colors !!!
The 1000x750 one I did is? 911K
Just 256 colors is what most can see on the internet
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I used a combination of Computer Graphics Imaging plus the lates Hubbell/NASA “Star Birth” distant images and worked on them
You are the GURU of the VOODOO that YOU DO so well!!
Hey, save THAT in your scrapbook, lol.
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ON PHONE just a minute JB. one finger typing...
Sorry, long phone call from my daughter! Those are both beautiful! I see you got the brightest fiery section of the nebula in the other one too.
They are great devolve!!
The “fiery section” came about as I was attempting dozens and dozens of options and settings
You have to be careful to watch and save unusual FX as it is often impossible to reproduce them later
The overall 1024x768 image was not what I wanted - But I backed up and made that into a TP BG .gif I could use in blends, overlays, or on top of other images or in tables
The top graphic is a .jpg
The bottom graphic is 2 .gif tables together
The 1024x768 Star1.gif is in the /NASA/ folder too
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I’ll give the lower one a shot at 128 colors at 512x384 later and see what happens
However, observers at the scene report that they couldn't tell his ash from the hole in the ground.
Don’t know if you noted it but bedolido’s page shows banned!!
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LOL!
I posted to him/her by mistake!
I know, you had corrected that earlier. I am always looking at Freeper pages, find a lot of good gifs that way, lol. Anyway, I saw what I told you! Don’t know the reason.
Now this is what happens when I put my setting way lower in the animator. Do you see how the fiery areas and some of the blue are distorted and flickering?
I know it’s easier to ‘get to’ but it’s not nearly as pretty looking.
But - to the untrained eye [snicker] -it will still look pretty.
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