It is your last frontier.
After an eight-month delay, a rocket will finally release the remains of 330 people from all walks of life into deep space, including George Washington and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
Texas-based Celestis Inc.’s inaugural Enterprise flight is scheduled to take off at 2:18 a.m. Monday from Cape Canaveral in Florida, marking the first time a commercial company will release human remains on the Moon. and beyond.
The two-stage Vulcan Centaur rocket will first launch 62 1/4- and 1/2-inch-long titanium capsules filled with DNA or cremated remains to the moon, in a device 6 feet high and 8 feet wide. called pilgrim lunar lander.
It will become a “permanent monument.”
The two-stage Vulcan Centaur rocket will first launch 62 of the 1/4- and 1/2-inch-long titanium capsules filled with DNA or cremated remains to the moon, then the other 268 into deep space. Celestis Inc.’s inaugural Enterprise flight is scheduled to take off at 2:18 a.m. Monday from Cape Canaveral in Florida. AFP via Getty Images
The spacecraft will then carry the remaining 268 capsules more than 185 million miles into deep space, where they will “orbit the sun forever,” said Celestis CEO and co-founder Charles Chafer.
“I’ve had many firsts in my career, but this will be the first commercial deep space mission ever conducted, and hopefully it will be the first of many, many more in the centuries to come,” Chafer said.
The celestial payload will be filled with luminaries.
An anonymous donor provided hair samples from former Presidents Washington, John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
An anonymous donor provided hair samples from former Presidents Washington, John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower to be launched into deep space. Celestis Inc.
Also on board will be the partial remains of deceased “Star Trek” cast members Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura), James Doohan (Scotty) and DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy).
The mission will also send the show’s mastermind, Roddenberry, and his wife and actress, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, into deep space.
“We took Gene on our first mission in 1997 and Majel was part of it and said to me, ‘When my time comes, I’d like you to take Gene and me together on a deep space mission. “And I, who was 28 at the time and had no reason to believe we couldn’t do it, said, ‘I’d love to do it,'” she recalled.
The partial remains of late “Star Trek” cast member Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) will be among the luminaries launched into deep space. The mission will also send “Star Trek” mastermind Gene Roddenberry, top right, and James Doohan, bottom right, who plays Scotty on the show. Celestis Inc; AP; Supreme
“So the launch is not only the culmination of all our work to date, but it represents the fulfillment of a promise I made,” Chafer continued.
The flight will also fulfill the lifelong wish of Upper West Side-based sculptor and painter Luise Kaish.
Luise, whose works have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian and the Whitney, died at age 87 in 2013 and was “deeply fascinated” by space exploration and “obsessed with NASA,” said her daughter, Melissa. Kaish, to The Post. .
Acclaimed artist and sculptor Luise Kaish was “deeply fascinated” by space exploration and “obsessed with NASA,” her daughter, Melissa Kaish, told The Post. Helayne Seidman “I’m really excited for her dream of the ultimate trip to come true,” said Melissa Kaish. Helayne Seidman
“My dream is for my ashes to be buried in space,” his mother once told him.
Melissa will watch the launch with her father Morton Kaish, who will turn 97 on the same day, via online video streaming.
“I’m incredibly overwhelmed by the idea that this is actually going to happen… I’m really excited that her dream of the ultimate trip is coming true,” she said.
After the moon, the spacecraft will carry the remaining 268 capsules more than 185 million miles into deep space, where they will “orbit the sun forever,” said Celestis CEO and co-founder Charles Chafer. United launch Alliance/AFP via Getty Images Less permanent farewells, such as suborbital flights, which return to Earth and are returned to participants’ families, cost almost $3,000, and orbiting the Earth costs almost $5,000. United launches Alliance/AFP via Getty Images
Orbiting deep space in perpetuity isn’t cheap: It costs just under $13,000.
Less permanent farewells, such as suborbital flights, which return to Earth and are returned to participants’ families, cost almost $3,000, and orbiting the Earth costs almost $5,000.
Previously, the mission was scheduled to launch on May 4, 2023.
Chafer, 70, who co-founded Celestis in 1995, insisted that “everything is looking good” for Monday’s launch.
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