Saturday, April 28, 2007

Scotty Going Back to Space

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - If all goes as planned Saturday, the cremated remains of the actor who portrayed "Scotty" aboard Star Trek's starship Enterprise will sail into suborbital space aboard a rocket launched from the southern New Mexico desert.

Actor James Doohan's remains, along with those of Apollo 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper and about 200 others, are aboard the second private rocket scheduled to be launched at Spaceport America, a commercial spaceport being developed in Upham, N.M.

I wonder how large his carbon footprint will be.

1 comment:

Mark said...

Maybe all those ashes floating around in space will block harmful UV waves and slow down our eventual demise due to Global warming. Or do I have the facts askew?

Maybe it's the ashes floating around already that contribute to Global warming. The way Gore explains it, it is probably both.