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Scotty's ashes fail to reach final frontier
Star Trek star's ashes lost in failed space mission
( From Ian Sample’s Science Blog at the Guardian.co.uk)
The ashes of actor James Doohan, who played Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in Star Trek, were lost on the way to space on Sunday morning, when the rocket carrying them malfunctioned minutes after take-off.
The actor's ashes were among those of 208 people, including Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, who had paid to have their remains fired into space. Engineers later said that the two stages of the rocket had failed to separate.
The accident is the third in a row for SpaceX, which was set up in 2002 by the internet entrepreneur Elon Musk.
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