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 […]
