Space

It appears that there was a small glitch in the transporter... not the one that Scotty is famous for having operated, no, in the transport that took James Doohan's ashes up into space and back to Earth.

Charles Chafer, owner of Space Services Inc., the company behind the launch, had said: "We launch his remains into space and return them so there's a keepsake of a little bit of Scotty who has flown to space."

Apparently Scotty did not care to be a keepsake - the rocket that carried his ashes, and those of 200 others including astronaut L Gordon Cooper, one of the first men into space, is missing in the mountains.

A company spokesman for Space Services Inc. said: "The terrain is very mountainous; it's not somewhere that you can walk or drive to. My understanding is that it will take some time to get up there."

I suggest we all drink a little toast to Mr. Doohan.