Bizarre service of burial of dead people to space

The "New Horizons" probe to Pluto planet carries the ashes of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh .

Scientific and technical progress seems to have affected all areas without exception. Except that in the near future there is also a ceremony service to bury the dead ashes on the distant universe.

According to rumors, some American billionaires bought all the places to bury them on the Moon and on the planets. For the first time Celestis has launched a similar service.

In April 1997, the rocket Pegasus brought 24 mi-ni vases containing human ashes from Earth to orbit. So far, there have been thousands of people in the universe, mostly celebrities, for example, among them American astronaut Gordon Cooper and actor James Douen, who once played a role. Scotty in the popular TV series "The Star Road".

And American fiction writer Arthur Clarlke at the time of his life, his curls were "buried" in outer space and hoped that at some point he would be cloned again by use genetic genes.

If not Earth people, would they be representatives of extraterrestrial civilization? The thing is how do aliens understand that it is the curls of a famous writer? And do they want to take the time to create his copy?

The test of the rocket universe from Novosibirsk named Boris Yakushin is the first Russian to be buried in the universe. When he was alive he dreamed of his ashes, even if only a small part would be spread outside the Earth.

Illustrating missiles carrying ashes to the universe

In 1978 Yakusin died, his body was cremated and 20 years later his son Sergey signed a contract with the American burial company and sent a capsule containing his father's ashes to orbit near Earth. .

In August 2010 there was also a cosmic burial event for another Russian, Vitaly Fedorov, who had worked in the Baiconur universe. It is expected that the "Combined" missile will put containers containing ashes in orbit.

But this rite was banned by Roscosmos (Russian Space Leadership Board) because according to the representatives of the organization, "the problem is not legal . " Currently such services can only be ordered in the US.

However, experts claim that most of the ash-containing capsules will in fact be within the range of the gravity of the earth. They will be attached to the last floor of the rocket and sooner or later they will be burned in the atmosphere, and the ashes will be diffused. This whole process can take from several days to 250 years.

Usually the ash will be placed in a container that can hold nearly 100 capsules. Of course it is not possible to provide a special rocket to send the ashes, but the remains will be levitated as a "load" attached to other space programs.

The cost of "ceremonial service" in such a burial service in the US is several thousand dollars. You can choose one of two options. The first is 1 gram of ash placed in a small metal "pill" named the deceased on a special stele attached to the spacecraft.

The second is 7 grams of ash encapsulated in a small metal cylinder on which the epitaph concisely records the name of the deceased. Relatives will be given a "souvenir" item which is an exact copy of the module. The whole procedure of sending the ash to the universe was filmed and then the recording disc would be handed back to the family.

Partial cremation was carried out from the Vandenberg Air Force military base, located in the northwest of Los Angeles. The process of launching missiles is accompanied by a small memorial service with the participation of deceased relatives.

In addition to burial on the universe there is also a service to bring the cremated ash to the Moon. Also at Celestis company, the cost to send 1 gram of ash is about 10 thousand USD. The first person to be buried in this way is the famous Comet Eugene Shoemaker.

Actually, the symbolic burial ceremonies are paid by NASA (US Aeronautics and Space Agency). A capsule containing the remains of the scientist was sent to the Moon on a recurring reconnaissance satellite.

In 2006 on the "New Horizons" probe to Pluto carried the ashes of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet in 1930.

It is expected that the device will reach Pluto planet in 2015. In the same way, in May 2009 an American rocket carried ashes of 16 people but encountered an incident and the ashes were dropped. to the ground. Thus, the history of burial services on the universe has been supplemented by tragic events.

If the symbolic ritual does not make you satisfied, then you have to spend millions of dollars to be released outside the Earth. However, in the absence of basic conditions for burial on our planet, the problem of creating big cemeteries in the universe sooner or later will be more concerned by humanity.