Ashes of Star Trek's Scotty beam down, go missing - Yahoo! News UK

Ashes of Star Trek's Scotty beam down, go missing - Yahoo! News UK: "Beaming him up was the easy part: the problem was transporting him back to Earth.

A search team continues to look for a rocket carrying ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on 'Star Trek,' almost two weeks after it hurtled to the edge of space from New Mexico, the company behind the launch said on Thursday.

Remains of the Canadian-born actor, who died two years ago at the age of 85, blasted off from a remote launch site on April 29 carrying a payload that included the ashes of astronaut Gordon Cooper and several experiments.

A spokeswoman for Houston-based Space Services Inc., which organised the 'memorial spaceflight,' said the telephone-pole sized rocket descended by parachute into a rugged area that a search team has repeatedly failed to reach."