Calgary native Tyson Jerrold Sorge loved space so much, when he died, his loved ones paid tribute to him by launching his cremated remains into space early Saturday morning.
At around 12:48 a.m. MT, Sorge's remains were part of a Celestis memorial spaceflight that launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the California desert.Celestis memorial spaceflight website obituary of Sorge
, written by his wife Sue. "Some of the highlights of his life would be watching the Atlantis Shuttle launch from Cape Canaveral and touring Johnson Space Centre. "He was fortunate enough to marry a fellow nerd," it says, continuing, "Who shared his love for all things space, and we spent many a night tracking satellites overhead, watching launches on NASA TV, and arguing over which
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