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December 25, 2020 The Times, London
Ashes of Star Trek's Scotty smuggled on to International Space Station
As one of Star Trek's most beloved characters, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott spent a lifetime exploring the galaxy on the USS Enterprise, boldly going beyond the final frontier. Now it can be revealed that in death the actor who played the starship's chief engineer has travelled nearly 1.7 billion miles through space, orbiting Earth more than 70,000 times, after his ashes were hidden secretly on the International Space Station.
November 23, 2020 Ars Technica
How a Thanksgiving Day gag ruffled feathers in Mission Control
The phone call from the "Mountain" to Mission Control in Houston came at just about the worst possible time. It was the wee hours of Thanksgiving morning in 1991. Up in space, the crew members on board space shuttle Atlantis were sleeping. Now all of a sudden, Lead Flight Director Milt Heflin faced a crisis.
October 28, 2020 The Bargain Hunter
Space collection is out of this world
Kevin Petitte's interest in the space program began with a broken leg when he was struck by a car at the age of 6. The accident gave Petitte plenty of time to follow NASA's Mercury program astronauts. As a surprise, his mother wrote to the Mercury astronauts, who sent her son autographed photos.
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