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Aug 14, 2006 8:21 am US/Eastern

'Scotty' To Be Rocketed, Not Beamed Up

FARMINGTON, Conn. (CBS/AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 2: James Doohan as Mr. Scott (AP photo).
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Click to enlarge 2 of 2: James Doohan gets a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

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A Connecticut company has a major role in a unique memorial in which tiny amounts of cremated remains of 120 people will be shot into space this fall.

UP Aerospace Inc. is providing the rocket for the flight service in partnership with Celestis Inc. of Houston, Texas.

Celestis promises "a step into the universe" for the deceased. The departed will lift off from the "Spaceport America" south of Albuquerque, N.M. in October.

The small capsules of ash will spend only around five minutes about 140 miles above the earth before fall back on parachutes for a soft landing 30 miles away on the White Sands Missile Range.

Among those on board will be James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television series, Star Trek.

Another real spaceman will be part of the launch. A sample of ashes of Gordon Cooper, who logged 222 hours in NASA's Mercury and Gemini spacecraft, will be on board.