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b9wn9 TIL Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, was the first person to be “Buried in space”. On April 21, 1997, his ashes were brought to the Canary Islands and loaded aboard the Pegasus-XL and launched out of the rocket.
b4y9 TIL that for $12,500 (slightly more than average funeral costs) you can have your remains launched into deep space