Should NASA honour Shatner when he dies?

I think Star Trek has done wonders for the space program and they
should remember Shatner when the time comes, but something more
substantial than the few grams of Doohan that went to space.

RichA wrote:

I think Star Trek has done wonders for the space program and they
should remember Shatner when the time comes, but something more
substantial than the few grams of Doohan that went to space.

They sent Gene Roddenberry into space, even though he was technically a
Western writer...

Derek Janssen (wire Paladin, San Francisco)

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RichA wrote:

I think Star Trek has done wonders for the space program and they
should remember Shatner when the time comes, but something more
substantial than the few grams of Doohan that went to space.

They sent Gene Roddenberry into space, even though he was technically a
Western writer...

Derek Janssen (wire Paladin, San Francisco)


Maybe they could drop him off on their next mission to the moon. Maybe
we'll get lucky and all the Star trek fans will follow him there. :-)

George

On Dec 10, 7:34 pm, RichA wrote:
I think Star Trek has done wonders for the space program and they
should remember Shatner when the time comes, but something more
substantial than the few grams of Doohan that went to space.

NASA already honored Star Trek back in the 70s when it
named the first shuttle that flew (though not in orbit) the
Enterprise. (It 'launched' from the top of a Boeing 747.)

(And then in the first Star Trek movie, that shuttle was shown
in the pictures of previous 'vessels' that had been named
Enterprise.)

What about the rest of the actors? Maybe they should wait til they are all
gone
and just fire up the whoooole kit and kabootle.

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RichA wrote:

I think Star Trek has done wonders for the space program and
they
should remember Shatner when the time comes, but something
more
substantial than the few grams of Doohan that went to space.

Frankly I think Sputnik and the cold war did a lot more
for the space program than Star Trek ever could.

Maybe they could drop him off on their next mission to the
moon. Maybe we'll get lucky and all the Star trek fans will
follow him there.

I wonder fossilized trekkies found on the moon will be
called trektites. --

Hilton Evans
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Lon -71° 04' 35.3"
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:34:16 -0800 (PST), RichA wrote:
I think Star Trek has done wonders for the space program and they
then you should be able to name one. Just one will do.

ST did nothing for the space program.

You might not realize it, but there are no cowboys or indians in space.
ST was little more than midieval storytelling with the guns replaced by phasers,
and boats replaced with starships.

should remember Shatner when the time comes, but something more
substantial than the few grams of Doohan that went to space.
fatoveracting****sinspace?

On Dec 11, 9:54 am, "Rick Evans" wrote:

Frankly I think Sputnik and the cold war did a lot more
for the space program than Star Trek ever could.





Hilton Evans
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Lon -71° 04' 35.3"
Lat +42° 11' 06.7"

Exactly. The "moon race with the Russians" got the money appropriated.
Small detail--the Russians early on were hopelessly behind the US.

And we didn't get to the moon first because of superior booster power--
it was our superior computers and program management techniques; PERT,
for example. Not glamorous but the real world.

Btw, NASA could have put a satellite up a year before sputnik but was
ordered to "stand down" by President Eisenhower because of legal
concerns in connection with overflying Russia--even in orbit. Tension
over U-2 flights were very high at the time. We have never been
"behind Russia" in our space abilities; not in 1957 and certainly not
now.

On Dec 11, 1:03 pm, "
wrote:
Btw, NASA could have put a satellite up a year before sputnik but was
ordered to "stand down" by President Eisenhower because of legal
concerns in connection with overflying Russia--even in orbit. Tension
over U-2 flights were very high at the time. We have never been
"behind Russia" in our space abilities; not in 1957 and certainly not
now.

If what you say is correct, the President's (or his advisers') error
made us behind in 1957. All factors have to be considered to
say who was behind at any point.

They sent Gene Roddenberry into space, even though he was technically a
Western writer...

I thought that was a private company that did this.
The buy a kilogram on a private launch, and resell five gram amounts
for ashes. I heard maybe five such launches so far.