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More than once, Rhonda and Dick Archbold had talked about taking a vacation in space, hoping the opportunity would arise in their lifetimes. Unfortunately for Rhonda, it didn't: She died of a heart attack 17 months ago at her home in Stockton, California, at age 52. Having missed out on space travel in life, Rhonda's husband plans to offer her the next best thing on Saturday, when one gram of her cremated ashes soars into the heavens aboard a SpaceLoft XL rocket from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico...
...package purchased by her husband, this fall her ashes will be inserted into a module attached to a satellite and will orbit earth at least one time before vaporizing upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. She may no longer be alive to savor the experience, but Rhonda Archbold is finally exploring the final frontier...
...Dick Archbold, a Stockton lawyer, will be joined by Rhonda's son, Dan, in the early morning crowd watching the launch, fingers crossed for a successful mission. Last fall, the first SpaceLoft flight ended moments after it began when the telephone-pole-sized rocket spiraled erratically before plummeting to earth. After reviewing the flight data, the solution was obvious, says Eric Knight, co-founder of UP Aerospace, the Connecticut firm that built the rocket. It needed a fourth tail fin. Many computer simulations confirmed his diagnosis and Saturday's flight went off without a hitch...
...remains of Rhonda Archbold ascended along with the ashes of 201 others, including former astronaut L. Gordon Cooper and actor James Doohan, better known as "Scotty" in the original Star Trek television series. The space-bound ashes were packed into lipstick-sized cylinders, each inscribed with a brief tribute by their loved ones...
...Sending his wife into space as a posthumous celebration of her life on earth was an easy decision for Archbold, who paid $1,400 to Celestis, a company that pioneered memorial space flights in the 1990s. She had been a Star Trek fan since the first series on television and dragged her husband to many Trekkie conventions, where they had often seen "Scotty...