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    James Tiberius Kirk is going to space

    After pretending for decades, the Star Trek captain will be going to "space" at the age of 90:

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/enter...ion/index.html
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    I was just going to post this. you beat me to it!

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    I have a new dilithium crystal in my PC.
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    Scotty, albeit in death, beat him there.

    "A portion of his ashes, ¼ ounce (7 grams), was scheduled the following fall for a memorial flight to space with 308 others, including Project Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper. Launch on the SpaceLoft XL rocket was delayed to 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. Some of Doohan's ashes are hidden under the floor cladding of the International Space Station's Columbus module - after being smuggled aboard in 2008 by Richard Garriott. The rest of Doohan's ashes were scattered over Puget Sound in Washington. On May 22, 2012, a small urn containing some of Doohan's remains in ash form was flown into space aboard the Falcon 9 rocket as part of COTS Demo Flight 2."

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Doohan

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    Just saw a story on the news about the delayed launch. Hard to imagine that WS can achieve weightlessness with that belly!

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    Can't wait to see your pictures at 90. (Or, my own.)

    I don't think the g-forces in level or length are that bad in this trip. OTOH, the pressure on the way up on his blood vessels. I'd be worried about strokes and retina damage. Just guessing. Then again, he has been all over the universe. Although, he still can't speak French like Jean-Luc Picard.
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