Actor James Doohan, who played the starship Enterprise's chief engineer Scotty on "Star Trek," finally made it to space on Saturday as a rocket with some of his ashes was launched in New Mexico.

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

Yes, very nice, him and 200 others.

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Scotty's ashes lost in the desert

The idea was to shoot his remains, and 213 others, into 'sub-orbital space' 72 miles up and the rocket then split into two and parachute back to Earth so the ashes could be returned to relatives.

The mission went drastically wrong and they've lost all the ashes somewhere in the New Mexico desert.

James Dohan 'Scotty's widow, Wende, said the man who traveled on so many missions with the Enterprise always regretted that he never made it into space himself.

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