Companies offer space services for remains of average people

[DoYouEverWonder]

Feb 20, 2006


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Scotty will be blasted into space - not beamed up - and Gordo is returning for his third flight.

The planned launch sometime in March of a rocket carrying the ashes of actor James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery Scott on "Star Trek," and Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper will give a fitting send-off to two men who helped popularize human space exploration.

The craft also will hold the ashes of 185 others, including a telephone technician, a nurse and a college student.

Their families paid $995 to $5,300 for the flight, being conducted by one of a handful of growing businesses hoping to give a space experience to the common folk.

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Looking for that perfect send off for your deceased family members? Here you go.

[bluestateguy]

1. There are some living people I'd like to dump into space

Just take 'em on up and turn 'em loose into deep space. We could do that to the most violent criminals.

[HuffleClaw]

2. kewl.

i'll send up the ashes of my cat.

[obxhead]

3. I still say HST did it best,,,

1 cannon...
Several ounces of powder.... :)
limitless amounts of brews....
A gathering of your favorite people.
Add one jolly good spark...

Priceless to say the least....
......

[Spinzonner]

4. SO now everyone can make an Interplanetary ash of themselves