Last Wishes
Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry, requested that his body be sent into space after his death. About a year after his 1991 death, a portion of Roddenberry’s ashes boarded Space Shuttle Columbia and flew into outer space. On April 21, 1997, the Pegasus rocket was launched from near the Canary Islands carrying portions of the remains of Roddenberry and Timothy Leary, in addition to about 20 others. The remains of Roddenberry’s wife, Majel, are scheduled to join Gene in outer space in 2014.
