DNA From Star Trek's Original Doctor Will Ride to the Final Frontier - by b0yle
for a NASA-supported mission, but after the Centaur has done its job, it will go into a “graveyard orbit” around the sun, along with the capsules packed aboard the spacecraft.
In addition to Kelley, the Star Trek personages represented on the flight include Nichelle Nichols , James Doohan , Majel Barrett Roddenberry , series creator Gene Roddenberry and visual-effects wizard Douglas Trumbull. Nichols’ ashes and DNA wereCharles Chafer, co-founder and CEO of Celestis, took note of the fact that . “It’s particularly notable that we announce DeForest Kelley’s addition to our Enterprise Flight on Star Trek Day,” he said in a news release.
When Kelley died all those years ago, his wife Carolyn asked a family friend and caregiver named Kris M. Smith to cut off a couple of locks of the actor’s hair as keepsakes. Carolyn herself , but Smith held onto the hair sample. This year, as news of the Enterprise Flight spread, Smith reached out via a mutual contact and offered to give the sample to Celestis for DNA extraction and inclusion on the flight.
“I donated the lock of hair so De could join his shipmates on their eternal journey into interstellar space. The mission just didn’t feel complete without Dr. McCoy aboard,” Smith said. “I think De would have loved to ‘go hopping galaxies’ again with his cast and crewmates. So, ‘second star to the right and straight on ’til morning,’ De! Loving you was easier than anything we will ever do again!”
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