Scotty's ashes to make space trip!

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Albuquerque, NM - 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. 21st "memorial spaceflight" - among them, Gordon Cooper, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts.

Doohan died last July at age 85.

I thought I had heard that all the cast members of the original "Star Trek" series could be sent into space by NASA? Maybe if was just a rumer or something. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Linda

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I may go to see him off, I'm close. I'm a little pre occupied with my own stuff and summer and didn't know how to reply to that GAry post, but that is on my mind right now. I can only hpe that Gary makes it.