"Beam Me Up, Scotty"

So, this is the latest trend. You too can have your ashes blasted into space by a rocket for only $600 per gram. The ashes of James Doohan, the guy who played 'Scotty' in Star Trek, are now probably in orbit around some moon somewhere thanks to this new NASA initiative to fund the space program.

To be honest, I find it kind of funny when the family say things like "he would have been so proud to do something he could never do in life". I, quite frankly, would not personally like to be shot into space in a capsule the size of a thermos.

And in other news...
Stephen Hawking went up in "G-Force One" - the aircraft used to reproduce the effect of weightlessness found in space. Two people helped him out of his wheelchair so he could float around for a while.

Aparently he hopes to one day do the real thing. So, Matt, I think that disolves your observation: "Missy Higgins singing her own songs is like Stephen Hawking being an astronaught".