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Science 'Scotty' and 'Gordo' reach space and return
Science 'Scotty' and 'Gordo' reach space and return | 'Scotty' and 'Gordo' reach space and return |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Sunday, 29 April 2007 | |
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The charge for sending one gram of ashes on a suborbital flight is $US495. Doohan requested in his will that his remains should travel into space. Another portion of his ashes will reportedly be part of the payload of a later orbital flight. Cooper piloted the last Mercury mission (Faith 7) and was the commander of Gemini 5, which made him the first man to rack up two orbital spaceflights. Although he was backup commander of Apollo 10 and was expected to be named commander of (what turned out to be the ill-fated) Apollo 13, he did not fly any Apollo missions. A memorial ceremony for Doohan and Cooper was held on Friday at the New Mexico Museum of Space History.{moscomment}
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