Beam-up Scheduled for May

Earlier on this blog,  I reported that several grams of James Doohan’s (Scotty of Star Trek fame) ashes were going to be sent into space by Space Services Inc. along with the ashes of approximately 185 other decedents.

Recent reports reveal that launch is now scheduled for May 2006.  The ashes “will be a secondary payload on a privately built Falcon 1 rocket launching an Air Force satellite. A module containing capsules of ashes will orbit for years before falling into the atmosphere * * *.”

See Mike Schneider, Space ashes for the masses, CNN.com, Feb. 20, 2006.