Company to Send Human Ashes to the Moon

The moon is a special place. We all know. But making the moon as a final resting place?

Celestis Inc. is all set to send human ashes to the lunar surface using robotic landers and this service could begin as early as next year.

Celestis Inc., president Charles Chafer said his company in collaboration with Odyssey Moon Ltd. and Astrobotic Technology Inc., will attach capsules containing cremated remains onto robotic landers and cremation capsules will remain on the moon with the lunar landers when the missions were complete.

The cost per one person’s ashes that starts at $10,000 has already attracted at least 6 people to sign up for the servi

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Chafer said he would expect at least 1,000 cremated capsules to be launched on the first lunar mission that would be launched in late 2009 or early 2010, and no less than 5,000 on future missions.

Did you know: Celestis Inc., a unit of Houston-based Space Services Incorporated, for the past 11 years has been sending ashes of hundreds of people into space including U.S. astronaut Gordon Cooper and “Star Trek” James Doohan who played Scotty in the TV series.

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samantha Said,

November 15th, 2008 @10:19 pm

No! No! No! This is so wrong! This needs to be stopped. It is my moon too. How dare these freaks shoot cremated people to my moon’s surface. Why are we not criminalizing this? It’s like shoving your dead dad’s ashes in my window at night while i try to sleep. I don’t want to look at the moon and think, ah, there’s about 5,000 capsules of dead people’s ashes that I am looking at now. What a great thought. This is so fucking disrespectful to the rest of the inhabitants of the world. Dead people on the moon. Bullshit!

aaron Said,

May 2nd, 2009 @4:20 am

I agree with the above comment. A case where commercialisation is taken way too far. Money has it’s place, but not here. In this day and age we are looking towards conserving the environment and finally realising the mistakes that have been made in the past are we not ? Doesn’t look like it does it. Space debris around earth is getting to be a real problem. Now a rubbish dump on the moon for capsules with people’s remains in them, what’s next ?

The moon and other space bodies are at the moment relatively untouched. Start now, and try to leave that way as much as possible. Tell these money hungry so and sos what they can do with their idea about human remins. Nothing but greed that’s all it is. What service are these people really providing ? None, just filling their own bottomless pockets.