Wende Doohan has every intention of making sure her husband's ashes go into space. But first, Space Services Inc., which will launch the remains of the late James Doohan (Capt. Montgomery Scott) into space, needs to get a succesful inaugural launch of its Falcon 1 spacecraft.

The first launch has been scrubbed three times in the last few months because of various reasons. However, in a letter to fans, Wende Doohan said her husband would've understood.

"He was the most impatient man I have ever met," Doohan wrote about her husband. "He would only wait five minutes for anybody: for dinner, to catch the limousine to the convention site, or to give an interview. If you weren't there on time, that was it, he was gone.

"All of this to say that even Jimmy, with all his impatience, would have understood the delays that have occurred on the Falcon I launch out of the Marshall Islands, much more than I. He would have told me that it's not as simple as pushing a button, like we did four our model rockets. There are hundreds of man hours, tons of equipment, unpredictable weather patterns, more variables than I can name and things I can't even pronounce determining a successful launch."

Doohan, best known as the Scottish chief engineer of the USS Enterprise, died July 20 after suffering from pneumonia and battling with Alzheimer's disease. He was 85.

Doohan appeared in the original "Star Trek" on NBC, seven movies through "Star Trek: Generations" in 1994, and an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1993.