Re: Scotty's ashes fall back to Earth

On 19 May, 14:17, Sofa - Spud <comfyso...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 19 May, 14:11, Ed Chilada <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6671887.stm

That's a bit of a undignified fall to Earth. It seems they expected it
to happen? I thought the idea was that he would fly off into space,
heading where no man had ever been before? But the rocket didn't make
escape velocity? AIUI if it didn't make it far enough out of the
atmosphere to escape Earth's gravity, then it didn't really make it
into proper space at all?

It's not designed to return to Earth and so did not need to get to
escape velocity, which for such a small payload is comparatively easy.
Technically at the height the craft achieved it was in space, though
not as most people would think of 'amongst the stars' which is pretty
much how the thing is promoted.

I saw this story last week when they were looking for the capsule -
all seems a bit pointless , a suborbital flight . Now what do they do
with the ashes?


In true sense of no taste whatsoever, the ashes after returning to
Earth are mounted to be placed on display.

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