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WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. (AP) - A rocket payload carrying ashes of astronaut Gordon Cooper and actor James Doohan — Scotty on "Star Trek" — should be recovered within a week from a remote New Mexico mountain range, the launch company said Friday.
UP Aerospace Inc. president Jerry Larson said recovery crews can get no closer than 1,300 feet to the payload because it landed in rocky, steep terrain in the San Andres Mountains.
"It's on top of the mountain," Larson said. "The only way to get in there is by helicopter. But once we spot it, getting it out is the easy part."
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