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Scotty Beams Up … For Good

July 27, 2006

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In what could become a trend among dead “Star Trek” cast members, the ashes of James “Scotty” Doohan will be blasted 70 miles into space.

Doohan’s deed is unique, but not rare, actually, the company has already shot-up a few dozen folks.

A Houston-based company called Space Services, Inc. will shoot your ashes into space for anywhere between $500 and $1500. No word as to what makes it more or less expensive, but it appears to be Rocket Adjacency, or something like that. According to a spokeswoman, “everyone wants to be in the same rocket as James Doohan, he was so beloved.”

The October 21st “memorial spaceflight” that Doohan’s dust will be on is also slated to carry the ashes of Gordon Cooper, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts.

Says Doohan’s widow: “It’s a way to honor something he would have loved to have done.”

Sweet. A little spooky. But sweet.


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