It was their last frontier.
After an eight-month delay, the rocket will finally launch into space the bodies of 330 people from all walks of life — including George Washington and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
The inaugural Enterprise flight of Texas-based company Celestis Inc. scheduled to launch at 2:18 a.m. Monday from Cape Canaveral in Florida, marking the first time a human body will be removed from the moon and beyond by a commercial company.
The two-stage Vulcan Centaur rocket will begin dropping 62 of the 1/4- and 1/2-inch-long titanium capsules filled with DNA or cremated remains on the moon, in a 6-foot-tall, 8-foot-wide device. called the Peregrine Lunar Lander.
It will be an “eternal reminder.”
The two-stage Vulcan Centaur rocket will first drop 62 of the 1/4- and 1/2-inch-long titanium capsules filled with DNA or cremated remains on the moon, then 268 more in space. Celestis Inc.’s inaugural Enterprise flight. Celestis Inc. scheduled to launch at 2:18 a.m. Monday from Cape Canaveral in Florida. AFP via Getty Images
The spacecraft will then carry the remaining 268 capsules over 185 million miles into space, where they will “orbit the sun forever,” Celestis CEO and Co-Founder Charles Chafer said.
“I’ve had many firsts in my career, but this will be the first commercial space mission ever – and hopefully it will be the first of many, many more over the next few centuries,” Chafer said.
The celestial payload will be filled with luminaries.
An anonymous donor donated hair samples from Washington’s former presidents, John F. Kennedy, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
An anonymous donor donated hair samples from former Washington presidents John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower to be launched into space. Celestis Inc.
A number of late “Star Trek” cast members Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura), James Doohan (Scotty) and DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy) will also be in attendance.
The mission will also send the show’s mastermind, Roddenberry, and his wife, Magel Barrett Roddenberry, into space.
“We flew Gene on our first mission in 1997 and Magel was a part of it, and he said to me, ‘When my time comes, I want you to fly Gene and I together on a space mission. ‘ And I, who was 28 years old at the time and had no reason to believe we couldn’t do it, I said, ‘I’d be happy to do it,’” he said.
The remains of late “Star Trek” cast member Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) will be among the figures launched into space. The mission will also send “Star Trek” masterminds Gene Roddenberry, top right, and James Doohan, bottom right, who played Scotty on the show. Celestis Inc; AP; The most important thing
“So not only is the launch the culmination of all our work to date – it represents the fulfillment of a promise I made,” continued Chafer.
The flight will also fulfill a lifelong ambition of Upper West Side-based artist Luise Kaish.
Luise — whose work has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, and the Whitney — died at age 87 in 2013 and was “very fascinated” by space exploration and “obsessed with NASA,” her daughter, Melissa Kaish told The Post.
Renowned artist and sculptor Luise Kaish was “absolutely fascinated” by space exploration and “obsessed with NASA,” her daughter, Melissa Kaish, told The Post. Helayne Seidman “I’m so excited that her dream of the ultimate cruise is coming 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 very moved by the idea that it’s actually going to happen … I’m very excited that his dream of the ultimate voyage will come true,” he said.
After the moon, the spacecraft will carry the remaining 268 capsules over 185 million miles into space, where they will “orbit the sun forever,” said Celestis CEO and Co-Founder Charles Chafer. United launches Alliance/AFP via Getty Images Less shipping remains as suborbital flights — which return to Earth and are returned to participants’ families — run nearly $3,000, and to circle the Earth costs nearly $5,000. United launches Alliance/AFP via Getty Images
Orbiting deep space forever isn’t cheap, costing less than $13,000.
Less permanent deliveries like suborbital flights — which return to Earth and are returned to participants’ families — run nearly $3,000, and to circle the Earth costs nearly $5,000.
The mission was previously 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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