The chief engineer of Star Trek, Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott, has been ‘beamed up’ on July 20th, 2005, after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and having been ravaged by Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, lung fibrosis and pneumonia.
James Montgomery Doohan will be missed…
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From CNN:
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — If all goes as planned Saturday, the cremated remains of the actor who portrayed “Scotty” aboard Star Trek’s starship Enterprise will sail into suborbital space aboard a rocket launched from the southern New Mexico desert.
Actor James Doohan’s remains, along with those of Apollo 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper and about 200 others, are aboard the second private rocket scheduled to be launched at Spaceport America. The commercial spaceport is being developed in Upham, New Mexico.