Confirmed: SpaceX Dragon Ferried ‘Scotty’s’ Remains Into Space

Saw this dead comment which was interesting enough to reproduce where people will see it. Note: hej, it looks like all your comments started going dead two days ago, possibly by mistake. You might want to look into that.

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hej 3 hours ago | link [dead]

No, it did not. Falcon 9 (the rocket) was – more specifically, the second stage – Dragon (the spaceship) was not. That’s not exactly rocket science but people still get it wrong all the time. (During the post-launch press conference a journalist asking questions about it got it wrong.)

What this means is that the remains were put into orbit around the Earth but they will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. (I was actually looking around when the second stage will do that or whether it already did but couldn't find anything.)

"Scotty" was an early PayPal "spokesman". https://www.paypalobjects.com/html/pr-121799.html

I'm pretty curious who the other people are.

Multiple revenue sources!

So are they orbital debris now, or what?