Celestis

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 This article contains information regarding a company that is scheduled to conduct a space burial in the next 13 days.

Details may change as the countdown and ascent progress. Launch details: SpaceX will use a Falcon 1 to launch Trailblazer and two CubeSats for the American Air Force and MDA, and for Malaysia's ATSB. Launch will occur from Omelek Island at Kwajalein Atoll. A Celestis Space burial payload, Explorers, including the remains of astronaut Gordon Cooper and Star Trek actor James Doohan is also being flown. If the launch is successful, it will be the first privately funded liquid-fuelled rocket to reach low Earth orbit.

Launch is scheduled for 23 June 2008 at 23:00 UTC. See 2008 in spaceflight and the Spaceflight Portal for further details.
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Celestis is a company which launches cremains, or cremated human remains, into space. It is a subsidiary of Space Services Incorporated. They purchase launches as a secondary payload on various rockets, and launch samples of many peoples cremains on one launch.

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[edit] Missions

Launch date/time (GMT) Rocket Flight name Flight type Notable individuals Remarks
21 April 1997, 11:59 Pegasus-XL Founders[1] Earth orbit Gene Roddenberry, writer
Gerard O'Neill, physicist
Krafft Ehricke, rocket scientist
Timothy Leary, writer
6 January 1998 Athena Luna-01[1] Luna Eugene Merle Shoemaker, astronomer Attached to Lunar Prospector
Landed 31 July 1999
10 February 1998, 13:20 Taurus Ad Astra[1] Earth orbit
21 December 1999, 07:13 Taurus Millennial[1] Earth orbit Charles Oren Bennett, illustrator
21 September 2001, 18:49 Taurus Odyssey[1] Earth orbit Failed to reach orbit
28 April 2007, 14:56 GMT SpaceLoft XL Legacy Earthrise (suborbital) Gordon Cooper, astronaut
James Doohan, Star Trek actor
Scheduled launches
23 June 2008, 23:00 GMT Falcon 1 Explorers Earth orbit Gordon Cooper, astronaut
James Doohan, actor

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Celestis

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Celestis memorial spaceflights homepage

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