Well, not really beamed up, but pretty cool. He got smuggled aboard.
Video game entrepreneur Richard Garriott recently revealed that he managed to smuggle the ashes of the late James Doohan onto the International Space Station during a 12-day mission in 2008. Doohan is best known for playing engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original Star Trek series as well as in several feature films.
"It was completely clandestine," Garriott said in an interview with The Times. "His family were very pleased that the ashes made it up there but we were all disappointed we didn’t get to talk about it publicly for so long. Now enough time has passed that we can."
When Doohan passed in 2005 at the age of 85, his final request was to have a portion of his remains taken to the ISS. His family’s formal requests to NASA were turned down. Then, in 2008, another path to the stars opened when Garriott became one of the first earthlings to take a private trip to the station.
Doohan’s son Chris contacted Garriott before his trip to the stars, asking Garriott to fulfill his late father's wish to be "laid to rest among the stars." Upon receiving Doohan's ashes, Garriott printed three cards that featured a photograph of Doohan and laminated them with a sprinkling of ashes sealed inside. He managed to get one of the cards onboard the ISS and hid it under the cladding on the floor of the space station’s Columbus module.
This is the first time Garriott or the family has revealed Doohan’s presence on the station and, to their knowledge, he’s still up there, twelve years later.
Note: I haven’t seen this posted yet, and it seemed to fit right in with Dartagnan’s diary and Tom Tomorrow’s cartoon today.