Space, The Final Frountier...
Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Space, The Final Frountier...
Star Trek's favorite chief engineer, James Doohan passed away today from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease. [From IMDB:] Though the original Star Trek ended in 1969, Doohan was forever associated with the character of Scotty, as the catchphrase "Beam me up, Scotty" entered the pop culture lexicon, and after initial balking, he fully embraced his Star Trek legacy. In 1979, he joined the original cast for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and also appeared in the six sequels that followed before the series was fully handed over to the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. As the Star Trek films became more and more popular, Doohan attended numerous fan conventions and also lectured at various colleges; in 1996 he published his autobiography, appropriately titled Beam Me Up, Scotty.
We Will Miss You, Scotty.
In other space news...
In honor of the anniversary of the first manned Moon landing (July 20th, 1969) [or so they claim] Google has added NASA imagery of the Moon to Google Maps. Check out Google Moon ... and be sure to scroll in as close as it will let you -- so you can see what the moom is really made of!
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