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  1. Re:Special 'Delivery' Instructions by ralzod · · Score: 3, Informative · on Space Burial

    Fitting that you bring up Star Trek, since Gene Roddenberry is listed as a Founder's Flight passenger.

  2. Re:Special 'Delivery' Instructions by ralzod · · Score: 3, Informative · on Space Burial

    Fitting that you bring up Star Trek, since Gene Roddenberry is listed as a Founder's Flight passenger.

  3. Re:There were already remains in orbit by TotallyUseless · · Score: 5, Informative · on Space Burial

    Bonus Link: Lists the passengers on that Founder's Flight.

  4. From A Trekie by mccoy1701 · · Score: 1 · on Space Burial

    I would have figured that this would've been talked about before, after all, Gene Rodenberry was a part of this companies first "mission".

  5. Old news - they handled my brother by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Space Burial

    This is old news - Celestis handled my brother back in 2000.

  6. Broadcasting dead... by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Space Burial

    As a lower cost option, these people allow you to broadcast a digital message which can contain any audio or picture format you want into space.

    They call the service Ad Astra. I like the dobule meaning of the word "ad" in that name...

  7. Lack of communication in the space biz by apsmith · · Score: 5, Informative · on Back to the Moon?
    It always amazes me how limited the picture most people seem to have, even in the media, of the huge variety of space-related efforts that are going on. If it isn't on NASA's list (even if NASA people are involved in it) or occasionally on a European or Japanese list, it's as if it doesn't exist. Here's a short list of lunar missions and projects currently in development, private and public: Many of these have received approval - some of the commercial missions seem to have had a bit of trouble finding funding or overcoming regulations and have announced delays of a year or so, but then the government missions have been delayed too.

    What's missing on this list? Where's NASA you say? Interestingly NASA has spent over 50 times as much on Mars missions as on missions to the Moon since Apollo 17 left in Dec 1972. But that may change now that the NRC has put a lunar return among the highest priority missions.

    Want to be involved? Check out the National Space Society and the Moon Society and you may help make some of these things happen!
  8. Burials In Space by exceed · · Score: 1 · on NASA to Go Commercial?

    This sounds alot like the burials in space I've been hearing about. People's ashes get blasted into space by a rocket and then are released among the stars.

    Celestis allows people to send departed loved ones into space.

    "Since the time before recorded history people have looked to the sky with wonder. When humanity first mastered flight we knew that our destiny lay in the heavens above. Space travel and exploration is our greatest adventure -- today and in the future."

  9. At least they aren't sending bodies by Cy+Guy · · Score: 2 · on A For-Profit Trip To The Moon

    Another firm, Celestis has a plan to send a portion of your cremated remains to the moon. It will cost about $12,000 to have 7 ounces of ash (about 1/16 of normal human remains) sent up in a lipstick size urn.

    Here are some press articles about the plan:
    AP, BBC, Reuters SF Chronicle

  10. Re:First Man Buried on the Moon! by jfoust · · Score: 1 · on No dust plume from Lunar Prospecter

    A portion of Roddenberry's cremains (cremated remains) were first carried into orbit on a shuttle mission (forget which one) as part of the personal belongings of one of the crew. This was not revealed until well after the mission, by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry.

    Later, a small sample of his cremains, along with those of a few dozen other people, were flown into orbit by Celestis, a private company. Timothy Leary was among the others on that "Founder's Flight", leading to unending headlines of the form "Leary's Final Trip." :-).