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  • Companies offer space services for remains of people without deep pockets

    02/20/2006 7:11:41 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 158+ views
    AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 2/20/06 | Mike Schneider - ap
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Scotty will be blasted into space - not beamed up - and Gordo is returning for his third flight. The planned launch sometime in March of a rocket carrying the ashes of actor James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery Scott on "Star Trek," and Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper will give a fitting send-off to two men who helped popularize human space exploration. The craft also will hold the ashes of 185 others, including a telephone technician, a nurse and a college student. Their families paid $995 to $5,300 for the flight, being conducted...