Gerry Paulus holds a DNA Memorial Kit given to households by Celestis, inc. as a memento for individuals who use their space burials service, in Mesa, Arizona, U.S., June 26, 2023.
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Gerry and Elizabeth Paulus love taking street journeys throughout the United States, and shortly they’ll be getting ready for what they name their “ultimate road trip” – one that may take them into deep space.
The couple from Mesa, Arizona, shall be sending their DNA into space within the upcoming Enterprise mission being launched by Celestis, a space burials firm primarily based 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 space burials should not a brand new idea, the corporate is getting ready for his or her first deep space 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.
Presidents George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy may also be represented.
“That repository is going to be 330 million kilometers out into space,” Celestis President Colby Youngblood mentioned. “It’s going to be the first … repository of our civilization out in the universe.”
