The ashes of actor
James
Doohan, who played Scotty in the original Star Trek television
series, are still missing after being shot into a brief Earth orbit two weeks
ago.
The canister containing the ashes, along with those of Nasa pioneer L. Gordon
Cooper and 200 others, was sent up into low earth orbit on 28 April before
re-entering the atmosphere and parachuting to Earth.
But after two weeks of searching the company that organised the flight has
admitted that it cannot find the canister.
Celestis
said that the canister's homing device is being shielded by the mountainous area
of New Mexico into which it has fallen.
While the company has the location down to 400 metres that still leaves a lot
of ground to cover. Today specialist teams will move in to try and find the
human remains.
Celestis sells the space missions for between $495 and $1,495 depending on
how much of the ashes people want to send. The remains spend around five minutes
above the atmosphere before returning to Earth.
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