Gene Roddenberry

Gene Roddenberry

male, deceased (1991) (United States)
Star Trek, science fiction, Television writer, science fiction writer, Star Trek script writer, American…buriedinspace, space burial, Space burials, star trek deep space nine, born in El Paso, Texas
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was an American scriptwriter and producer. He is best known as the creator of what would become the science fiction...
Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

male, deceased (1996)
1960s counterculture, Turn on, tune in, drop out, lsd, convert to Hinduism, Hindu, Space burials…buriedinspace
Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and...
James Doohan

James Doohan

male, deceased (2005)
Star Trek actor, Scotty, Star Trek The Original Series actor, Star Trek, actor, television actor…buriedinspace, Ashes scattered in Puget sound, Space burials, ashes in space
James Montgomery Doohan (March 3, 1920 - July 20, 2005) was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty"...
Gerard O'Neill

Gerard O'Neill

male, deceased (1992)
Space burials, planet, Swarthmore College, physicist, Astronomer, astronaut…buriedinspace, Space advocacy, Space colonization, Space Studies Institute
Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6 1927 - April 27 1992) was a U.S. physicist and space pioneer. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Swarthmore...
Gordon Cooper

Gordon Cooper

male, deceased (2004)
Mercury Seven, astronaut, University of Hawaii alumni, Space burials, U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee, Death from Parkinson's Disease…buriedinspace, selected as a Mercury astronaut in April 1959
Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr. was an American astronaut. He was one of the original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned-space effort...
Clyde Tombaugh

Clyde Tombaugh

male, deceased (1997)
Space burials, University of Kansas alumni, from LaSalle County, Illinois, American, University of Kansas, from Kansas…buriedinspace, born in Streator, Illinois
Clyde William Tombaugh (1906-1997) was an American astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930. Tombaugh was born in Streator, LaSalle...
Eugene Merle Shoemaker

Eugene Merle Shoemaker

male, deceased (1997)
Space burials, Australian road accident victim, American, Road accident victim, Asteroid discoverer, Planetary scientist…buriedinspace
Eugene Merle Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928 - July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science. Born in Los...