Capabilities and Services

Re:Capabilities and Services by onion2k on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @10:20AM (#10220770)

Using the smaller Falcon 9 you could send approximately 1500 people's ashes in to space (assuming an average of 3kg left after cremation for each person), at a cost of $39,000 each.

I wonder if that could be a viable business.

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Re:Capabilities and Services by andrewstuart2 on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @10:31AM (#10220827)

Uh, if you go with the falcon heavy you can transport 17,666 people's ashes at $5,094 a pop. But you may be waiting a lot longer to accumulate that many buyers.

Two-tier model? :-P

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Re:Capabilities and Services by solaris00 on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @10:46AM (#10220914)

Strangely this was a topic of discussion with my family the other day.

It's definitely selfish, but I need a way to get to space somehow. We could justify it as aiding the budding commercial space industry :)

It would have mass market appeal at ~12k USD a pop. The question becomes where would you send it?

Personally, I would love to drift into deep space, but could settle for the sun. Possibly a remembrance countdown on the web with clips of everyone to be sent off until launch.

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Re:Capabilities and Services by PhaseMage on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @12:58PM (#10221704)

If you can settle for the Sun, and be patient... Just wait ~8 billion years for the sun to turn into a red giant (engulfing the earth, along with your remains). You may even get lucky and some of your remains may be swept away in the solar wind.

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Re:Capabilities and Services by calinet6 on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @10:29AM (#10220813)

I'd settle for 50g or so, and then you could get far more up.

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Re:Capabilities and Services by rch on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @11:35AM (#10221223)

Why send ashes when you can send DNA?

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