How Gene Roddenberry�s ashes were put into orbit.

I said wouldn�t it be great � when Gene died if we could bury him in space. And that word just got around and people started to talk about it and one day they came and said, �Would you like to send Gene�s ashes up?�

I got to send a little vial of Gene�s ashes up � I forget what mission it was, but Colonel Wetherby was the one who took them up as a piece of his personal property. Those guys are allowed two pounds each as they go up. So he took those little vial of ashes with him as part of his two pounds. We watched it on TV, the launch, and of course the tears are coming down everybody�s eyes, this is the way it was supposed to be. He�s up there now going around every 90 minutes looking down saying, �What have you done to my show?�