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Star Trek actors' ashes to float in space for eternity after botched rocket mission


A giant rocket carrying the ashes of a number of actors from Star Trek was supposed to head to the moon, but has instead been left stranded following a failed rescue mission

The ashes of DeForest Kelley (Dr McCoy), James Doohan (Scotty) and Nichelle Nichols (Lt Uhura) were on boad The Peregrine spacecraft, which was set to give the actors a final resting place on the Moon. The spacecraft, which also carries the remains of three former US presidents and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US, on Monday. One of which read: "The team believes that the likely cause of the unstable sun-pointing is a propulsion anomaly that, if proven true, threatens the ability of the spacecraft to soft land on the Moon.

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