If burial or cremation just doesn’t seem special enough to honor the death of a loved one, one company is offering the unique option of sending a loved one’s remains into space. The Elysium Space company allows people to send a portion of their loved one’s remains into orbit. Customers can deposit a portion of […]
What better way to say goodbye to your loved ones than to blast their remains into space, where they orbit the planet before re-entering the atmosphere, burning up as a fiery shooting star? Space burials have been around for more than a decade, but a company called Elysium Space wants to bring them mass-market, with […]
When being creative with what to do with the ashes of loved ones, some think to spread them on the deceased’s favorite body of water or throw them off a majestic cliff. But for a tidy sum, you can now send their remains to a place most humans will never touch — the reaches of […]
Because Carl Sagan once reminded us that we are all made of star stuff, there might be a few people who wish to go quietly into the night by sending their ashes into space. A San Francisco-based company called Elysium Space pledges to send the cremated remains of clients out into space for $2,000. They […]
Funeral tech is booming. From alkaline hydrolysis, which disposes of one’s remains in the most environmentally-friendly way, to rings with diamonds made of a loved one’s ashes, the future is now in terms of personalizing your departure from this mortal coil. Today marks yet another milestone in body disposal: the relatively cheap space burial. Read […]
An ex-NASA engineer has launched Elysium Space, a new startup with the goal of sending spacecraft into orbit with the ashes of the deceased. Loved ones back on Planet Earth will then be able to monitor the location of the ashes from an app. A spot on the first “memorial spaceflight”, which is expected to […]
If you want to go to space, you can go to school, study hard, get good grades, work for a few years, then wheedle your way into NASA and apply to be an astronaut. Or you can be a celebrity or a millionaire and sign up for the first voyage on Virgin Galactic, set for […]
