The Navajo Nation is seeking to destroy the first commercial burial in space, insisting that plans to memorialize humans on the moon would turn sacred sites to indigenous religions into “waste sites.”
The Biden administration moved on Friday to defuse the escalating star wars, CNN reported, calling a hurried White House meeting ahead of Monday’s launch of a rocket plane scheduled to deliver the bodies of George Washington, John F. Kennedy, and the “Star Trek” constellation. idol to space.
“The moon holds a sacred place in Navajo cosmology,” said Navajo president Buu Nygren.
“The proposal to turn it into a resting place for human remains is deeply disturbing and unacceptable to our people.”
“We’re turning the moon into a graveyard and we’re turning it into a waste site,” said Justin Ahasteen of the Navajos’ office in Washington.
The two-stage Vulcan Centaur rocket was filled with the bodies of 333 people, including the late “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, his wife, recurring cast member Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, several USS Enterprise cast mates, and others whose family paid for it. for privilege.
The political Death Star could keep the bodies of George Washington, John F. Kennedy, and the idol constellation “Star Trek” on earth because Native Americans claim the moon as their own sacred site. The Biden administration scrambled to appease angry Navajo Nation members with a hastily called White House meeting Friday, CNN reported. Astrobotic Technology
Hair samples from three US presidents — Washington, JFK, and Dwight D. Eisenhower — are also on board, courtesy of Celestis, a privately owned space burial company.
“We reject the claim that our memorial spaceflight mission contaminated the moon,” said Celestis CEO Charles Chafer.
“Our memorials on the moon are handled with care and respect … No one, and no religion, owns the moon.”
“The moon holds a sacred place in Navajo cosmology,” said Navajo president Buu Nygren. Office of the President of the Navajo Nation
The 6-foot-tall, 8-foot-wide Peregrine Lunar Lander will drop 62 sets of human remains, individually packed in titanium capsules, on the lunar surface.
The rest will continue into space to orbit around the sun.
But indigenous objections could short-circuit the mission, which has been plagued by delays.
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