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January 26th, 2009, 08:27 PM
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Gene Roddenberry, wife to spend eternity in space
Source: http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D95V7LH00.html
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Gene Roddenberry, wife to spend eternity in space
Jan 26, 10:04 PM (ET)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The creator of "Star Trek" and his wife will spend eternity together in space. Celestis Inc., a company that specializes in "memorial spaceflights," said Monday that it will ship the remains of Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry into space next year.
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, company spokeswoman Susan Schonfeld said.
After Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, his wife commissioned Celestis to launch a part of his remains into space in 1997. She died Dec. 18, 2008.
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I'm also going to post this at 3DG and TOK.
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Your sweet and weary head
The night is falling
You have come to journey's end
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore .
Children are a message that we send
to a time that we will never see.
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January 27th, 2009, 12:10 AM
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Re: Gene Roddenberry, wife to spend eternity in space
That is pretty cool. Very appropriate!
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February 28th, 2009, 06:33 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Re: Gene Roddenberry, wife to spend eternity in space
I didn't realize Majel had passed away.  But it's very fitting that the two of them will be together in space. |
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March 1st, 2009, 12:05 PM
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Re: Gene Roddenberry, wife to spend eternity in space
Gene Roddenberry will decay and fall out of orbit within a couple hundred years.
Just so you know....................
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March 1st, 2009, 01:44 PM
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Re: Gene Roddenberry, wife to spend eternity in space
I think they'd be satisfied with a couple hundred years.
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