Let's see how much you know about space burial - past, present and future.

They would have recovered them and provided appropriate space burial.

With the increased space burials continued in the graveyard until 1969.

They had a clear duty toward their missing fellows: rescue or space burial.

"Because his vessel wouldn't cool down before he was roasted like a food animal, you gave him space burial.

Space burial uses a rocket to launch the cremated remains of a body into orbit.

Space burial is the practice of disposing of human remains in outer space.

April 21 - A Pegasus rocket carries the remains of 24 people into earth orbit, in the first space burial.

Since 1997, the private company Celestis has conducted numerous space burials, usually as part of a third-party space mission.

Ehricke received a space burial on April 21, 1997, when a rocket sent a small amount of his cremated remains into Earth orbit.

Celestis is a company that launches cremated human remains into space, a procedure known as a space burial.

The launch was conducted by SpaceX, and also carried a space burial payload for Celestis.

Space burials are usually performed by launching a small capsule, containing a sample of cremation ashes of the deceased, into orbit using a rocket.

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Although Celestis does not currently offer space burial for animal remains, a Monroe, Washington police dog may have been on a 2012 burial flight, a contractual violation.

Some persons choose to have a small part of their ashes (usually less than 1 part in 1000, because of cost constraints) scattered in space (known as space burial).

Most ship people preferred cremation or space burial, but given Flynn's background McCoy did not find it so surprising that she wished to return to the earth, any earth.

It had seemed wrong to leave her in her bunk; he at least wanted to see her body properly stored in sickbay, so that it could be returned to relatives or given proper space burial.

Several other payloads were to be launched aboard the same rocket, including two CubeSats for NASA, and a space burial payload for Celestis, which would have remained attached to the rocket in low Earth orbit.

Space-based industry is a blanket term sometimes used to cover a variety of future forms of human activity in outer space, including asteroid mining, space manufacturing, space trade, construction performed in space such as the building of space stations, space burial, and space advertising.

The second known space burial was the burial of a sample of the remains of Dr. Eugene Shoemaker on the Moon by the Lunar Prospector probe, which was launched on January 7, 1999 by a three-stage Athena rocket.

The Trailblazer, PreSat and NanoSail-D satellites were lost in the failure, as was a space burial capsule, containing the remains of several hundred people, including astronaut Gordon Cooper, actor James Doohan, writer and director John Meredyth Lucas and Apollo mission planner Mareta West.