Deep space orbit to provide non-traditional resting place

Gerry and Elizabeth Paulus love taking street journeys throughout the United States, and shortly they’ll be making ready for what they name their “ultimate road trip” – one that may take them into deep area.

The couple from Mesa, Arizona, might be sending their DNA into area within the upcoming Enterprise mission being launched by Celestis, an area burials firm based mostly out of Houston, Texas.

“It helps us to think about the future and even though we’re not going to be there physically, we’re going to be a little part of it in some way and that really does make me smile,” Elizabeth Paulus mentioned.

While area burials should not a brand new idea, the corporate is making ready for his or her first deep area flight, orbiting across the solar indefinitely.

The flight will carry roughly 196 capsules, together with the ashes or DNA of notable people corresponding to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” together with the stays of actors James Doohan and Nichelle Nichols, who starred within the science-fiction saga.

U.S. presidents George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy will even be represented.

“That repository is going to be 330 million kilometres out into space,” Celestis President Colby Youngblood mentioned. “It’s going to be the first … repository of our civilization out in the universe.”

(Reporting by Liliana Salgado and Evan García; Writing by Mark Porter)