Posted on 07/05/2025 3:19:07 AM PDT by Libloather
A space capsule carrying the ashes of more than 160 people — and a stash of cannabis seeds — was lost when it crashed into the Pacific Ocean after two orbits around the Earth.
The Exploration Company (TEC), a German start-up, launched the Nyx capsule’s “Mission Possible” on June 23. Its precious cargo included the remains of 166 people, whose ashes were sent into orbit through Celestis, a Texas-based space burial company.
While the departed souls had smooth sailing for two successful orbits around Earth, “an anomaly occurred, and the vehicle was lost shortly after re-entry,” Celestis co-founder and CEO Charles M. Chafer, wrote on its website.
“The root cause is under investigation, resulting in the Nyx capsule impacting the Pacific Ocean and dispersing its contents at sea,” he added.
“As a result of this unforeseen event, we believe that we will not be able to recover or return the flight capsules aboard.”
TEC said the capsule was “launched successfully, powered the payloads nominally in-orbit, stabilized itself after separation with the launcher, re-entered and re-established communication after black out,” it wrote on LinkedIn.
When the capsule returned to Earth’s orbit, the company suddenly “lost communication” with it “a few minutes before splash down,” it added.
The materials on board the capsule have not been recovered since its crash landing in the Pacific, the company confirmed.
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Burned up twice...
Oopsie.
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Looks like that didn’t age well..
“Up in smoke”
Truly the Big Bambu….
Their website is so unintentionally funny..this is not an inexpensive endeavour.
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Somewhere there is a Big Lebowski tie in here.😎
The ups and downs of drug use.
After the high, the crash is always there...
Space exploration always has risks. Luckily, these space travelers were already dead.
Sounds like they were chasing one last post mortem high!
Think of how routine space flight has become and the money to do keeps falling, now we people’s ashes and cannabis seeds going into space for no good reason combined with the likes Gayle King and Katy Perry going into space and claiming astronaut status things are far different than Alan Shepard and John Glenn, it’s a farce
“Cannabis seeds” - I see the problem - they didn’t get high enough.....what kind of hair-brained idea was this?
******
Fly me to the Moon, let me walk among the stars….
Yeah, well, that’s just like, your opinion, man.
Procedure for cremation and short time trip into “space” seems cheaper than earth bound standard funeral in some of the options.
Cannot be a recession when people have money to hire Celestis to do their work.
The commitment to growing cannabis on other planets sounds like a dopers deranged brain working overtime. Probably easier to synthesize the THC, and/or other psychoactive compounds...in the year 2525...
“Space capsule carrying ashes of 166 people - and cannabis seeds - lost after crashing into Pacific Ocean”
Sound like the pilot was WASTED.
LOL! Good one. Ashes and cannabis on a rocket. Sounds like something the Germans would do.
If you plant those seeds in the ashes, and water it you can grow Deadheads.
One last fling before falling to the depths of hell?
Hope their souls fared better.
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