Scotty’s space ashes still lost on Earth

[HeeBGBz]

Source: MSNBC

The search for the UP Aerospace payload of experiments and the cremated remains of some 200 people — including Scotty of "Star Trek" fame as well as pioneering NASA Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper — continues within New Mexico's rugged mountain landscape.

After a successful blastoff from New Mexico's Spaceport America on April 28, the UP Aerospace SpaceLoft XL rocket and its payload nosed into space on a suborbital trajectory. As part of launch operations, the rocket was tracked by specialists at the neighboring White Sands Missile Range.

While all went well with the flight, the rocket components parachuted into rough-and-tumble terrain. Repeated searches within the landing zone have come up empty.



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Crap. They've lost Scotty and Gordon Cooper. I still don't understand what happened. They are doing a search for the payload.

[xultar]

1. Did they ever find Cooper? The fuckers. I'd never send anything up

with them.

[flamin lib]

2. I guess they just didn't have the power . . . nt

[displacedtexan]

3. Gee, can't these guys do anything right. it's not like it's rocket science...

Oops! It IS rocket science.

Never mind.

Just being snarky.

[HeeBGBz]

4. I don't think they found either one

This wouldn't have happened if Scotty had been the chief engineer.

[rosesaylavee]

11. It must be the weiner in the warp drive. n/t

[Jokerman]

16. It appears that Mr. Scott is about to eat a weiner without mustard.

It appears that I'm having a Dr. Demento flashback.

[hlthe2b]

5. Seems they could have worked something out with NASA

to take 'em up to the Space Station, although I don't know if there would be problems with releasing them there...:shrug:

[rhiannon55]

6. Maybe people's remains

are SUPPOSED to return to the earth whence we came; you know, ashes to ashes and all that...

[edbermac]

7. He's dead...and still missing, Jim.

[truthisfreedom]

8. As I recall, only a small portion of their remains was sent up. Most of them should be safe

with their relatives.

[Sequoia]

9. "It's getting mighty cold here Cap'n, beam us up."

"Scotty, Mr. Spock can't pin point your location."

[Journeyman]

10. Are these the same fools who float the idea of sending nuclear garbage to the Sun. . .

"Yeah, we'll just strap'er to a booster rocket, ship'er past the Moon, baby, burn her in the Sun. . ."

Idjits.

[LibertyLover]

18. Reminds me of a story a friend of mine told -

He was working on his PhD in materials science at Penn State about 20 years ago and as part of his graduate teaching assistantship had to teach a section of 101 Intro to General Science. One day he was telling the class about some possible uses for the then relatively new electro-magnetic rail launching system that had been developed by a Princeton professor, which included using it to launch radioactive waste on a trajectory that would eventually cause it to be incinerated by the sun. One kid stood up and started a tirade about how first we had polluted the earth with radioactive material and now we wanted to pollute the sun. A few of the more scientifically astute members of the class began laughing and my friend had to explain to said student how a star worked.

[newscott]

12. Damn those dilithium crystals when they fail!

[Dogmudgeon]

13. Keith Richards has the capsule

:evilgrin:

--p!

[slackmaster]

17. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

O8)

[Sabriel]

14. "Captain, I canna find th' rocket! It's gone doon in the mountains!" n/t

[The Stranger]

15. In one of the movies, when Mr. Spock died, didn't they launch him into some planet?

Then he came back from the dead in the next movie?

[Eugene]

19. Update: Scotty's orbiting ashes recovered

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Friday, 18 May 2007, 23:26 GMT 00:26 UK

Scotty's orbiting ashes recovered

The ashes of late Star Trek actor James Doohan have been found
in mountains in the US state of New Mexico, where they landed
after a brief flight in space.

The capsule containing his remains - and those of 200 other
people - had been missing for three weeks, after falling back
to earth from sub-orbit.

A rocket operated by a private company fired the remains to a
height of 72.7 miles (117 km) - the edge of space.

-snip-

Also on the flight were the ashes of astronaut L Gordon Cooper,
one of the first men into space.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6671887.stm