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In addition to carrying satellites from 34 different organizations, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launched on Monday, has a special feature: carried the ashes of 100 people in a project created by the company Elysium Space, which allowed several families to send the ashes of their relatives to Space for $ 2,500.
The ashes of James Eberling, deceased in 2016 and in love with space, also made a trip. This is actually the last wish he asked the family: that their remains be sent to the stars. Eberling loved everything about the space he often traveled to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, just to take pictures of the launches.
"We are very happy to be able to secure James' final, which means a lot for me and for my husband, we can finally do it for him," Eberling's mother, Beverly, told CNN. is firstly skeptical about this publication. When James died two years ago, his family only knew that the ashes had been sent to Space: that's what happened in 1998 with astronomer Eugene Shoemaker for the Moon with Star Treck actor, James Doolan.
Families will be able to monitor the rocket in real-time thanks to an application
