Star Trek tribute mission to fly on ULA’s Vulcan inaugural start – SpaceNews
The Celestis mission will be named the Business Flight
WASHINGTON — Celestis, a enterprise that provides area memorial services, will launch a Star Trek tribute mission on the first flight of United Launch Alliance’s new rocket Vulcan Centaur, ULA declared Jan. 26.
The rocket will start Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander and the Celestis mission will journey as a secondary payload.
In spite of significant agenda delays in the advancement of Vulcan and its BE-4 main engine, ULA mentioned the auto is even now on track on make its inaugural launch later this 12 months.
The Celestis mission, named the Company Flight, is a tribute to Majel Barrett Roddenberry and her husband Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. It will launch a lot more than 150 flight capsules that contains cremated stays, DNA samples and messages from Star Trek followers.
Tory Bruno, ULA president and CEO, claimed the mission is a “fitting tribute to the Roddenberry relatives and the Star Trek fans to be a element of the maiden flight of Vulcan.”
Celestis in 1997 introduced Gene Roddenberry’s ashes to house on an Orbital Sciences rocket.
“”We’re fulfilling a guarantee I made to Majel Barrett Roddenberry in 1997 that one day we would fly her and spouse collectively on a deep space memorial spaceflight,” claimed Celestis CEO Charles Chafer.
ULA said Vulcan will 1st deploy Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander on a trajectory to the moon. The Centaur upper phase will then keep on on to deep room, coming into a secure orbit about the sunlight with Celestis’ memorial spaceflight payload.
The Celestis mission will be named the Business Flight
WASHINGTON — Celestis, a enterprise that provides area memorial services, will launch a Star Trek tribute mission on the first flight of United Launch Alliance’s new rocket Vulcan Centaur, ULA declared Jan. 26.
The rocket will start Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander and the Celestis mission will journey as a secondary payload.
In spite of significant agenda delays in the advancement of Vulcan and its BE-4 main engine, ULA mentioned the auto is even now on track on make its inaugural launch later this 12 months.
The Celestis mission, named the Company Flight, is a tribute to Majel Barrett Roddenberry and her husband Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. It will launch a lot more than 150 flight capsules that contains cremated stays, DNA samples and messages from Star Trek followers.
Tory Bruno, ULA president and CEO, claimed the mission is a “fitting tribute to the Roddenberry relatives and the Star Trek fans to be a element of the maiden flight of Vulcan.”
Celestis in 1997 introduced Gene Roddenberry’s ashes to house on an Orbital Sciences rocket.
“”We’re fulfilling a guarantee I made to Majel Barrett Roddenberry in 1997 that one day we would fly her and spouse collectively on a deep space memorial spaceflight,” claimed Celestis CEO Charles Chafer.
ULA said Vulcan will 1st deploy Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander on a trajectory to the moon. The Centaur upper phase will then keep on on to deep room, coming into a secure orbit about the sunlight with Celestis’ memorial spaceflight payload.