May 11

Phoenix, Az. - Beaming him up was the easy part: the problem was transporting him back to Earth.

A search team continues to look for a rocket carrying ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on Star Trek, almost two weeks after it hurtled to the edge of space from New Mexico.

Remains of the Canadian-born actor, who died two years ago at the age of 85, blasted off from a remote launch site on April 29 carrying a payload that included the ashes of astronaut Gordon Cooper and several experiments.

The telephone-pole sized rocket descended by parachute into a rugged area that a search team has repeatedly failed to reach.

The terrain is very mountainous; it's not somewhere that you can walk or drive to.

The search had been hampered by "horrendous" weather in the desert state, but expected the Up Aerospace Spaceloft XL craft to be recovered in coming days.

Doohan played the starship Enterprise's chief engineer Montgomery Scott in the original 1966-1969 Star Trek television series.

He inspired the legendary catch phrase "Beam me up, Scotty" – even though it was never actually uttered on the show.

Hundreds of spectators clapped and cheered as his ashes roared aloft along with those of some 200 other people, including astronaut Gordon Cooper, who first went into space in 1963. Cooper died in 2004 at age 77.

Space Services charges $US495 to send a portion of a person's ashes into suborbital space.

In 1997, the company blasted the remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry into space.

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im sure they wil find it in the future or something they should have let the whloe thing burn up in the atmosphere

Should have a tracking device, be easy to locate.

Send the away team they should be able to track him down. I think the Romulans are to blame.

I watched a doco on Star Trek fans the other day, They are a devoted mob to say the very least, a bit on the scary side some of them are, one lady used to stand outside of her house every night and look at the hills where one of the actors lived and just breath and think about living with them She used to send them Christmas presents and such...
Anyways the moral is Im sure a particulary "devoted" fan would go to extreme measures to get ahold of something like that...

I feel sorry for the guy that has to wear the red top...

I would not want anyone to pay that much if they are going to lose me when they blast my ashes into space. If there is a afterlife James Doohan must be laughing now. If they modify their tachyon streams they should be able to detect his cloaked ashes.

maybe he finally got that role in 'lost in space "-?-lol

They'll find him in 5 years.

Hmm... I actually assumed the ashes were going to stay in space... Like just shot out to float around.

i didnt watch the enterprise, but send captain katherine Janeway of the starship voyager to find him, voyager spent much time in the delta quadrant, maybe get a few hunters to come. . .

*another bad Star Trek joke* They cant send they away team because the Kilngons are circling Uranus.

Bleep, Kirk out.

its the Klingons !!

The Dyson sphere has got him again.