I bet you thought I was going to say “lost in space,” right? Well, not exactly…

Evidently after his launch on April 28th, along with 200 other peoples’ cremains, the rocket carrying James Doohan (aka Star Trek’s Scotty) “reached its planned altitude of 72.7 miles (117 kms) before coming down in a mountainous area.”

Scotty
photo courtesy of Apropos of Something

According to the BBC website, “A company spokesman said: “The terrain is very mountainous; it’s not somewhere that you can walk or drive to. My understanding is that it will take some time to get up there,”  and “They know the general location, and we have the utmost confidence that they will recover it.”

Yeah right, those ashes are totally lost! Do you think that Scotty would have wanted it that way? Maybe they were beamed up. ;-)

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