Posted on 07/27/2006 5:26:31 PM PDT by KevinDavis
NEW YORK - Beam me up, indeed!
James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott in the original “Star Trek” TV series and several movies, will have a few grams of his ashes blasted 70 miles into space this fall from southern New Mexico.
Houston-based Space Services Inc. plans to have the ashes of 100 others aboard the Oct. 21 “memorial spaceflight” — among them, Gordon Cooper, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts.
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I think I'd like the second shot better.
Odd. MSNBC did a story on this on Tuesday as well.
Aye Captain.
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