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Confirmed: SpaceX Dragon Ferried ‘Scotty’s’ Remains Into Space

71 points by bemmu 14y ago

hello_asdf 14y ago
I'm pretty curious who the other people are.
- zeteo 14y ago
  http://www.celestis.com/memorial/newfrontier/a-h.asp http://www.celestis.com/memorial/newfrontier/a-h.asp
  - unreal37 14y ago
    Hmm, any evidence that Celestis has cargo on this flight? Their web site doesn't say they were involved with SpaceX.
    - tmcdonald 14y ago
      It was specifically mentioned a couple of times in the post-launch press conference.
demoo 14y ago
Multiple revenue sources!
pbreit 14y ago
"Scotty" was an early PayPal "spokesman". https://www.paypalobjects.com/html/pr-121799.html https://www.paypalobjects.com/html/pr-121799.html
hej 14y ago
No, it did not. Falcon 9 (the rocket) was – more specifically, the second stage – Dragon (the spaceship) was not. That’s not exactly rocket science but people still get it wrong all the time. (During the post-launch press conference a journalist asking questions about it got it wrong.) What this means is that the remains were put into orbit around the Earth but they will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. (I was actually looking around when the second stage will do that or whether it already did but couldn't find anything.)
fennecfoxen 14y ago
So are they orbital debris now, or what?
- Camillo 14y ago
  That would be a waste of lifting capacity! No, I'm told the astronauts aboard ISS were running out of Soylent Green... (warning: please don't read the above if you don't have a sense of humor)
Natsu 14y ago
Saw this dead comment which was interesting enough to reproduce where people will see it. Note: hej, it looks like all your comments started going dead two days ago, possibly by mistake. You might want to look into that. ============ hej 3 hours ago | link [dead] No, it did not. Falcon 9 (the rocket) was – more specifically, the second stage – Dragon (the spaceship) was not. That’s not exactly rocket science but people still get it wrong all the time. (During the post-launch press conference a journalist asking questions about it got it wrong.) What this means is that the remains were put into orbit around the Earth but they will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. (I was actually looking around when the second stage will do that or whether it already did but couldn't find anything.)

71 points by bemmu 14y ago

hello_asdf 14y ago

I'm pretty curious who the other people are.

zeteo 14y ago
http://www.celestis.com/memorial/newfrontier/a-h.asp http://www.celestis.com/memorial/newfrontier/a-h.asp
- unreal37 14y ago
  Hmm, any evidence that Celestis has cargo on this flight? Their web site doesn't say they were involved with SpaceX.
  - tmcdonald 14y ago
    It was specifically mentioned a couple of times in the post-launch press conference.

demoo 14y ago

Multiple revenue sources!

pbreit 14y ago

"Scotty" was an early PayPal "spokesman". https://www.paypalobjects.com/html/pr-121799.html https://www.paypalobjects.com/html/pr-121799.html

hej 14y ago

No, it did not. Falcon 9 (the rocket) was – more specifically, the second stage – Dragon (the spaceship) was not. That’s not exactly rocket science but people still get it wrong all the time. (During the post-launch press conference a journalist asking questions about it got it wrong.) What this means is that the remains were put into orbit around the Earth but they will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. (I was actually looking around when the second stage will do that or whether it already did but couldn't find anything.)

fennecfoxen 14y ago

So are they orbital debris now, or what?

Camillo 14y ago
That would be a waste of lifting capacity! No, I'm told the astronauts aboard ISS were running out of Soylent Green... (warning: please don't read the above if you don't have a sense of humor)

Natsu 14y ago

Saw this dead comment which was interesting enough to reproduce where people will see it. Note: hej, it looks like all your comments started going dead two days ago, possibly by mistake. You might want to look into that. ============ hej 3 hours ago | link [dead] No, it did not. Falcon 9 (the rocket) was – more specifically, the second stage – Dragon (the spaceship) was not. That’s not exactly rocket science but people still get it wrong all the time. (During the post-launch press conference a journalist asking questions about it got it wrong.) What this means is that the remains were put into orbit around the Earth but they will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. (I was actually looking around when the second stage will do that or whether it already did but couldn't find anything.)