Ace Frehley was known as "Space Ace" so it's only appropriate that there's a campaign to make him an honorary astronaut.
It's been organized by one of his fans, Katherine Sugg, who says, "Paul Daniel 'Ace' Frehley, at the tender age of 21, was brave enough to take one small orange step and one small red step (he showed up for his audition in KISS wearing two different colored sneakers), and make the giant leap into the global phenomenon that we all now know as KISS. And while most of his dreams ended up coming true, at least one did not.
"When he suddenly passed away from a brain bleed following a head injury at 74, he was still only merely playing the character of a Space Cadet. He never got to be one for real. In honor of his memory, all the lives directly and indirectly impacted by him, and his one last remaining unfulfilled wish, NASA should posthumously make Ace Frehley an honorary astronaut with the rank of 'Captain', because a celestial being of his caliber doesn’t deserve anything less of a send-off than this. His last countdown should be his absolute best!"
Frehley developed his Spaceman persona in make-up and costume in 1973, but he maintained that theme long after the greasepaint and costumes, naming his post-KISS band Frehley's Comet, two albums -- 2014's Space Invader and 2018's Spaceman, and songs such as "Mission to Mars," "Quantum Flux," "Inside the Vortex," "Past the Milky Way," "Starship," "Walkin' on the Moon," "Cosmic Heart," "Up in the Sky" and "Stratosphere."
To add your name to the petition go to Change.org.