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Scotty blasts off on final mission

Jan Buys

Bit sad 

A bit sad for the guy that Nasa could not really put him into space. It looks like a failed maiden trip of the enterprise now.

Trevor

Opportunity for PR 

It would be a wonderfully PR exercise for China to provide a few grams of payload for notable ashes on their moon shot.

Daniel Ballado-Torres

But he won't remain in space? 

Oh wait, I get it .... "Captain! We don't have the power!!! We need more dilithium crystals!!!"

I would've sent his ashes to the ISS at least. I hope there are true space-launching capsules (as in staying on space) by the time I die...