Missing rocket-launch ashes found in mountains

A rocket payload which flew briefly into space with ashes of astronaut Gordon Cooper and Star Trek actor James Doohan was recovered today in the US’s New Mexico mountains.

Missing rocket-launch ashes found in mountains

A rocket payload which flew briefly into space with ashes of astronaut Gordon Cooper and Star Trek actor James Doohan was recovered today in the US’s New Mexico mountains.

The payload was found in its designated recovery zone 20 days after Farmington, Connecticut-based UP Aerospace sent it up in a 20ft (6.1m) rocket on April 28.

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