This startup will send 1,000 people's ashes to space affordably in 2027

Space Beyond, a startup founded by a former NASA and Blue Origin engineer, plans to send up to 1,000 people's ashes to space in 2027 using a CubeSat on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission. The service, priced at $249, aims to make sending ashes to space affordable, leveraging the ride-share model and its bootstrapped nature. Customers can send about one gram of ashes, which will orbit the Earth for five years before burning up in the atmosphere.