Cemeteries in the Moon as of 2010

Company American of services funeral space began to do reserves for shipment of small capsules with ashes human to Moon, where it will install a cemetery that someday could be visited by relatives of the deceaseds, according to managers of the company.

The first shipment to the Moon would be realised as soon as in 2010 and already we are taking reserves. We can take until 5,000 individual capsules to the lunar surface, said Charles Chafer, president and founder of Celestis, with offices in Houston, Texas.

We think that someday people will be able to go to visit her relatives and friendly whose rest were sent to the Moon, indicated the manager and added that the company not yet has a name for its lunar cemetery.
The cremated rest of deads, or a symbolic portion of them, will travel in capsules transported by spaceships will take that them to the lunar surface for their eternal rest.

For the transport and reduction on the lunar surface Celestis it signed a contract with other two American space companies, Odyssey Moon Limited and Astrobotic Technology, that are working in the organization of future trips deprived to the Moon. By the shipment of a minimum portion of incinerating rest to the Moon (1 gram) 9,995 dollars are pleased, according to informs Celestis in their page Web.

The space funeral services include other possibilities besides the Moon, like the shipment of ashes to the Earth orbit, the economic option from 700 dollars, or to the deepest space, outside the orbit of the Moon around the Earth, with a maximum price of 37,500 dollars.

This last option would be available from 2011 when it concludes the development of a ship for transport of the capsules with ashes to the distant cosmos, announced the company.

10 years ago, in 1998, the NASA paid tribute to American astronomer Eugene Shoemaker, one of the pioneers of planetary science, transporting in a one of its lunar orbitadores capsule with a symbolic portion of its rest.

After a mission of a year in the lunar orbit the ship became engraved deliberately in the South Pole of the Moon and left there ash-gray for the first time of a human being.

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