• partial_accumen
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      When did they become human remains? Before or after launch?

      Long before. Its a company that, after your death, will fly some of your ashes to space. For orbital services, the ashes are then returned to your estate, and in this case that can’t happen because the vessel wasn’t recovered. They also offer deep space launches where your ashes never come back.

      The actor that played Scotty on the original Star Trek has his ashes flown to space, as an example.

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        I was gonna joke that this article could be “headlines about me, from the future” but then I read this comment and now I might not be joking. These molecules yearn to get the fuck away from this place

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      🎶 Always look on the bright side of life 🎶

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    I mean, haha silly funny time, but it was a person, Phillip Chapman, an astronaut’s remains. Please show some respect.

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      actually, that was their other launch. It exploded.

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      Spewing that much poison into the atmosphere for superstitious reasons is not worthy of respect, no matter who they were when they were alive.

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        The spacecraft was actually part of a ride share, with lots of other payloads, so the launch was for a lot of reasons.