Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

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The folks at Celestis are offering space — memorial capsule space — for its upcoming Perseverance Flight.

Billed as the first spaceflight ever to take memorial space capsules into space to orbit Earth and then deliver them safely home again, the mission is to be staged at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

Celestial keepsakes

Celestis explains the mission will fly individually engraved Flight Capsule that carries a loved one’s cremated remains or DNA sample to space and back to Earth, “into the waiting arms of family, who can keep these celestial keepsakes forever.”

Image credit: Celestis

This Perseverance mission is the tenth Celestis Earth Rise service, departing Vandenberg Space Force Base aboard a Space X Falcon 9 launch vehicle no earlier than February 2025.

This will be Celestis’ 25th overall memorial spaceflight since its founding in 1994.

Orbital recovery vehicle

The inaugural launch-orbit-return memorial flight is scheduled to launch in 2025 and makes use of The Exploration Company’s Nyx orbital recovery vehicle. The name Nyx is taken from the ancient Greek goddess of the cosmos creation.

Artwork credit: The Exploration Company

A memorial capsule starts at $3,495, with the returned capsule accompanied by a flight certificate authenticating and recording the exact mission trajectory, verifying the capsule reached space, circled the Earth at 500 miles altitude at roughly 17,000 miles per hour for three hours to complete two to three full Earth orbits.

“Touch the Sky… Seek the Stars… Return Home,” adds Celestis.

For more information, go to:

https://www.celestis.com/launch-schedule/perseverance-flight/

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