"05/28/2007"
NEW: Rocket makes successful flight into suborbital space, returns to Earth• Remains of 'Star Trek' actor, astronaut, 200 others carried into space• Family members paid $495 to put a few grams of their relatives' ashes on rocket
UPHAM, New Mexico - The cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who portrayed engineer "Scotty" on "Star Trek," soared into suborbital space Saturday aboard a rocket.
The rocket also carried the ashes of Apollo 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper, and about 200 other people.
It was the first successful launch from Spaceport America, a commercial spaceport being developed in the southern New Mexico desert.
Other Spaceport news: Bids have been let to build the Virgin Galactic headquarters and Hangers at Upham, NM. Stay tuned for renderings.
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