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Old August 15th 06, 03:49 PM posted to sci.space.history
Rusty
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Default News: Sub-orbital flight set for small portion of Gordon Cooper's and James Doohan's ashes


mike flugennock wrote:


However, the small capsules of ash will spend only around five minutes
about 140 miles above Earth before descending from the heavens on
parachutes for a soft landing 30 miles away on the White Sands Missile
Range...


_Sub_orbital?

Not to be too blunt about it, but just what _would_ be the ****ing point
of that?

That sounds positively depressing, a bit like flushing a dead goldfish
and having the pipes back up a bit and seeing the fish re-emerge from
the bottom of the toilet.



In the great beyond, Cooper can tell Shepard,

"Now we're even. Except for the moon landing. But I still have some
ashes left!"

8-/

Rusty