'Susan Cooper, the widow of Mercury astronaut Gordon "Gordo" Cooper who died in October 2004, said Thursday that her husband's ashes will be included in the memorial payload to be launched on-board a commercial expendable rocket scheduled for no earlier than March 2006, Alan Boyle with MSNBC.com reported.Dead people don't complain. They don't breathe. They don't eat. They don't take up too much room. They don't need heat. They don't mind radiation. These are all reasons why the first widespread commercial astronauts could be dead people.
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'Cooper's remains will be carried spaceward on the Falcon 1, a yet-to- be space tested launch vehicle built by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), along with a Pentagon satellite and the ashes of more than 170 people including actor James "Scotty" Doohan of Star Trek fame.(link)
Hopefully one day more than just bbq'd celebrities will get to go...
"Dead people don't complain. They don't breathe. They don't eat. They don't take up too much room. They don't need heat. They don't mind radiation."
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of that Pearl Jam song - "Rats"
they don't eat, don't sleep
they don't feed, they don't seethe
bare their gums when they moan and squeak
lick the dirt off a larger one's feet
they don't push, don't crowd
congregate until they're much too loud ...