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Topic: Photo of the week 354 (August 13, 2011)
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heng44
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posted 08-12-2011 10:38 PM
   
 Actor James Doohan, better known as engineer Montgomery Scott from the original Star Trek television series, goes where all shuttle commanders have gone before during a tour of JSC on January 17, 1991. Doohan checks out the view from the commander's seat of the full fuselage trainer in Bldg. 9A. He was escorted by astronaut Mario Runco during his visit. Ed Hengeveld |
APG85
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posted 08-13-2011 06:16 AM
Looks like he's having fun... |
ea757grrl
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posted 08-13-2011 07:11 AM
"What Scotty doesn't know is that we've secretly replaced the Space Shuttle's dilithium crystals...with Folger's crystals! Let's watch." |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
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posted 08-13-2011 11:04 AM
Kirk: "My friends, the Orion capsule."Scott: "And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon." Kirk: "Come, come, Mr. Scott. Young minds. Fresh ideas. Be tolerant." |
NavySpaceFan
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posted 08-13-2011 02:06 PM
You'd think he would sit in the flight engineer's seat!  |
Space Possum
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posted 08-13-2011 08:46 PM
Mr Doohan was a pilot in the RCAF. I'll bet he wished he could get some stick time in the simulator! I met him back in the 80's and he was a great guy, just like you would expect. |
onesmallstep
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posted 08-14-2011 01:45 PM
Met and got his autograph at an early sci-fi Star Trek convention in Fla. 'back in the day'. Shuttle Enterprise had just been christened, and everybody was looking forward to many shuttle flights to come.. |
ASCAN1984
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posted 08-14-2011 02:48 PM
His ashes were sent into orbit, weren't they? Almost two years after his death, approximately one-quarter ounce (7 grams) of Doohan's ashes were sent into space, as he had requested in his will. The ashes, along with those of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper as well as almost two hundred others, were launched on the SpaceLoft XL rocket, on April 28, 2007, when the rocket briefly entered outer space in a four-minute suborbital flight before parachuting to earth, as planned, with the ashes still inside.The ashes were subsequently launched on a Falcon 1 rocket, on August 3, 2008, into what was intended to be a low Earth orbit, however the rocket failed two minutes after launch. The rest of his ashes were scattered over Puget Sound in Washington. |
FFrench
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posted 08-14-2011 03:15 PM
You might enjoy the photos and event coverage on this page of Neil Armstrong's speech praising Jim Doohan. In part:"Now, I have a confession to make. I am an engineer. And if I get that command, I want a Chief Engineering officer like—" he took on a Scottish lilt— "Montgomery Scott. Because I know Scotty will get the job done, and do it right. Even if I often hear him say, 'But Caeptain, I dunna have enough time!' So from one old engineer to another, thanks Scotty." |
heng44
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posted 08-22-2011 10:48 AM
 As an addition to the photo above, Francis French sent me this one, with the text 'Beam me up, Scotty'. |
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