Ashes of Star Trek's Scotty Fly to Space

April 28th, 2007 in Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Ashes of Star Trek's Scotty Fly to Space (AP)

Actor James Doohan, who played "Scotty in the "Star Trek" television series, is shown at his press conference during the convention and tribute, "Beam Me Up Scotty...One Last Time," on Aug. 29, 2004, at the Renaissance Hotel in Los Angeles. If all goes as planned Saturday April 28, 2007, the cremated remains of the actor who portrayed "Scotty" aboard Star Trek's starship Enterprise will sail into suborbital space aboard a rocket launched from the southern New Mexico desert. Doohan died in July 2005 at age 85. (AP Photo\Sue Schneider)

(AP) -- The cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who portrayed engineer "Scotty" on "Star Trek," and of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper soared into suborbital space Saturday aboard a rocket.

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