![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The mission's cargo includes the cremated remains of Star Trek television series creator Gene Roddenberry - CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Imagesīut the commercialisation of the project has led to a fallout with Navajo Nation, the largest indigenous tribe in the US, as it involves two private firms depositing the human remains of dozens of people on what the tribe regards as a sacred site.Īmong the companies to have purchased payloads aboard the lander were space burial firms Celestis and Elysium Space, with the former charging people £10,000 ($13,000) to send the cremated remains of their loved ones to the Moon as “a permanent memorial on a distant, but constantly viewable world”. ![]()
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