You Can Now Travel To Space For Less Than $1000 If You’re Willing To Die First

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Have you ever wanted to explore interstellar space? Are you one of the many people who applied for a place on the one way Mars One mission but then thought fuck that when you saw there was an application fee? Me too. With a seat on Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic flights costing just $250,000 it’s probably fair to say that most of us wannabe space men and women will have a long wait ahead of us until we can afford such an adventure. Or will we?

Enter Celestis, Inc and their memorial space flights. For just $995 (£643) you can be shot up into space for just enough time to experience zero gravity. Once that’s done you’ll return back to earth where your flight will be validated as reaching space and the capsule you flew in returned to your family as a keep sake. Sounds great doesn’t it? That is, until you realise that this isn’t the kind of space tourism you’ve heard about. This is actually a funeral service.

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That’s right, the guys at Celestis, Inc are offering you the chance to say goodbye to your loved ones in your own unique way, by shooting them into orbit. But if you don’t fancy the shorter trip there are plenty of other options available to you, depending on the size of your curiosity (and wallet). Cat In Space

The packages available from these guys are listed below and If I had the money I’d out a gram of dead me in all of them:

  •  The Earth Rise Service: The basic package, this includes a gram of your deceased self being blasted up just high enough to be consider as gone to into space before you make your way back down to earth to be reunited with whoever it is that’s wants to keep that capsule or module containing a gram of you. That lucky person also receives confirmation of your space flight and trajectory.

Price:  1 gram – $995, +50% – 2 grams, +100% – 7 grams, +200% – 14 grams.

  • The Earth Orbit Service: This package sends your zombie dust into orbit around the planet until your orbit eventually decays and you fall back to Earth, vaporizing  up in the atmosphere on the way down like a shooting start in your own final tribute. Pretty cool right? What’s also awesome about this option is the amount of time you spend in orbit varies pretty drastically, from somewhere between 10-240 years! Whoever you’ve got keeping tabs on you at this point will also get detailed launch information after a year or so when the spacecraft completes a full orbit. 

Price: 1 gram – $4,995, +50% – 2 grams, +100% – 7 grams, +200% – 14 grams.
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