Scotty from Star Trek’s ashes to be blasted into space

Before he died in 2005, at the age of 85, he requested that his ashes be taken
into space. In 2007 a capsule containing them reached suborbital space for
several minutes, but the ashes were lost for three weeks after landing in
the New Mexico desert.

The following year SpaceX attempted to send a portion of them into orbit but
the rocket exploded, plunged into the Pacific Ocean, and was lost.

Alan Lindenmoyer, who supervises Nasa’s relationship with SpaceX, said the
latest attempt to deliver the ashes to orbit would not compromise the main
mission to the space station.

He said: “We had to make sure it would not interfere in any way with our
mission objectives before we allowed it to go into the rocket.”

The SpaceX launch has already been delayed several times and the company was
due to try again on Tuesday morning.

Its attempt to reach the space station has been described as a “giant leap”
in the commercialisation of space as Nasa looks to private firms to supply
cargo to the space station.

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