On April 21, 1997, the cremated remains of 24 people were launched into space in the first-ever space funeral.
One of those people was Gene Roddenberry, the creator of "Star Trek." Other notable people on board included the physicist and space exploration activist Gerard O'Neill, the German rocket scientist Krafft Ehricke, and Timothy Leary, a psychologist who became famous for his research on psychedelic drugs. These people's remains were sent to space via a company called Celestis, which charges thousands of dollars for these "memorial spaceflights." It only launches small samples of the cremated remains, because launching all of it would be way more expensive. The maiden voyage was named the Founders Flight, and it was air-launched on a Pegasus rocket. The capsule containing the remains orbited Earth for about 5 years before burning up in the atmosphere.
One of those people was Gene Roddenberry, the creator of "Star Trek." Other notable people on board included the physicist and space exploration activist Gerard O'Neill, the German rocket scientist Krafft Ehricke, and Timothy Leary, a psychologist who became famous for his research on psychedelic drugs. These people's remains were sent to space via a company called Celestis, which charges thousands of dollars for these "memorial spaceflights." It only launches small samples of the cremated remains, because launching all of it would be way more expensive. The maiden voyage was named the Founders Flight, and it was air-launched on a Pegasus rocket. The capsule containing the remains orbited Earth for about 5 years before burning up in the atmosphere.
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00:00On April 21, 1997, the cremated remains of 24 people were launched into space in the first ever space funeral.
00:10One of those people was Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek.
00:14Other notable people on board included the physicist and space exploration activist Gerard O'Neill,
00:19the German rocket scientist Kraft Erich, and Timothy Leary, a psychologist who became famous for his research on psychedelic drugs.
00:26These people's remains were sent to space via a company called Celestis, which charges thousands of dollars for these memorial space flights.
00:33It only launches small samples of the cremated remains, because launching all of it would be way more expensive.
00:39The maiden voyage was named the Founder's Flight, and it was air-launched on a Pegasus rocket.
00:44The capsule containing the remains orbited Earth for about five years before burning up in the atmosphere.
00:49And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:56Getschus rocket science a lot every year, and it's time to discover the massive amount of transport including the warriors like which are called tonight.
01:01And all of those people do not make a fact that the stars are pretty muchbranded in space and that the stars are a long way.
01:05The ship did not make a land that is a small thing.
01:07The ship did not make a land that has been called if they were to get to the stars.
01:09In fact, the ship is given to the stars, which are the sharks of the stars.
01:11The air-launched on a Sunday for several months and a half per hour in their registrations they also have two major branches of the stars.
01:15The land of the ship has been brought to the sail to the lulls.