I believe that everyone has a dream of traveling in space and exploring the mysteries of the universe since childhood, and halfway through !! life, the wish of space travel has not been achieved
According to the New York Times, the first commercial "space burial" plan for mankind set sail in the early morning of the 8th local time.
A total of 330 human ashes and DNA samples will be sent into space, including the creators of the classic series Star Trek and several former American leaders.
According to reports, this commercial "space burial" is currently expensive, and the highest fee for the "burial" in deep space orbit costs about 1$30,000.
I was amazed when I saw this topic, which means that the wish that cannot be fulfilled in life can be fulfilled after death.
But it's really useless, it can't really explore space. But it's true that you can make a lot of money.
Paying attention to the fact that this is the first commercial "space burial", I found that the space burial has already existed after searching.
The first space burial was held as early as 1977, and the organizer was the American company Celestis, which carried out the world's first space burial in accordance with the Outer Space Treaty, which stipulates the peaceful use of space. In the decades that followed, Japan and the United States implemented the program.
In 2014, Japan cooperated with Celestis, and they provide different ** according to their needs. According to the information on the official website, there are mainly 5 plans for the space burial of the Japanese Galaxy Stage Company, ranging from 25,600 yuan to 142,000 yuan.
In this project, they successfully sent five people into space at a cost of about 500,000 yen. It is understood that the company's plan is not only to bring the ashes into space, they said that they can also choose lunar exploration or space travel with the help of artificial satellites, and the drifting time is up to 240 years.
In order to achieve the goal of "I hope that after death, I can watch my family from space." In this hope, they have also specially developed software that allows family members to check the trajectory of the deceased in space, and there is a feeling that they are in a different parallel line with the deceased.
In 2018, the American funeral company Elysium Space saw its commercial value. They began working with Musk to send the ashes of 100 people into space using his Space X rocket.
China followed suit, and at 4:40 p.m. on April 4, 2023, a company launched the "China Space Burial - Star Burial" service for the first time on the **live broadcast platform, saying that it could send ashes, but only 80 grams could be brought. It is said that it starts at 50,000 yuan, and it will be reminded by mobile phone when it flies overhead.
It is extremely difficult for astronauts to go to the sky, so how do you launch their ashes into space?According to the American funeral company, they will provide participants with a special capsule cube, and let family members, relatives and friends put the ashes of the deceased in it and send it back, and then Bliss Space will load them into SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and launch it into outer space.
The capsule needs to take into account external factors such as volume, resistance through the troposphere, stratosphere and mesosphere, and thunderstorms.
Therefore, they control the ashes of each deceased person to about 1g, of course, if there are fewer people sent into the air, it should not be a problem to increase a little.
After launch, the rocket will orbit the Earth for 2 years, and will eventually re-enter the atmosphere, turning the dead into fiery meteors. As a relative, you can**APP,iOS and Android systems**, and you can track the movements of the spaceship for free.
At the beginning of the project, some people supported and some worried, from the current point of view, the world has launched a lot of spacecraft, to a certain extent, space junk has exceeded the original several times.
Therefore, many people are worried about whether there will be too much space junk and pose a threat to the spacecraft space station.
In order not to produce space pollution, the company said that after two years of flight, the spacecraft will re-enter the earth's atmosphere, burn in the scorching heat generated by friction, turn into meteors and disappear into the vast sky, and the end of life is fixed as a fleeting light and shadow, which means that the garbage produced will rarely appear in orbit, at least not in orbit.
Some netizens ridiculed: "After many years, your genetic ashes will be born on the star of adaptation".
It's better to send the body directly, in case some alien saves it."
I also want netizens to think about whether to implement space burial, after all, cemeteries are also very expensive now.
However, the business plan has not yet been fully implemented, and China is more likely to fall back to its roots. Instead of thinking about it, let's focus on the plan to send people to the moon by 2030Maybe we can really succeed in landing on the moon, and our space journey will not be too far away, which will be much more meaningful than space burial.
Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office, said that the lunar landing phase of China's manned lunar exploration project has been launched, and it is planned to achieve the first landing of Chinese on the moon by 2030.
Now all the work is already in preparation, Tsinghua, Harbin workers and other famous universities and scientific research sites have contributed good plans, as for the final adoption of whom will have to wait for the time of the moon landing.
The hardware infrastructure such as a new generation of manned launch vehicles, a new generation of manned spacecraft, a lunar lander, and a lunar landing suit are all planned, and presumably the selection and training of astronauts are also on the agenda.
We know that astronauts will be affected by certain aspects of their bodies when they enter space, such as loose bones, and their bodies will be unbalanced and difficult to coordinate, which is mainly caused by long-term weightlessness.
The moon is farther away than the earth, and the challenges are greater, the risks are higher, and there are more uncontrollable factors, which requires astronauts to have excellent psychological quality and strong ability to deal with all possible accidents.
At present, the environment on the surface of the moon is extremely harsh, and some experts have put forward a proposal to build a lunar base under the moon, and they are still very optimistic about this plan.
First of all, this kind of base built in a lunar cave can indeed ensure the safety of base facilities and astronauts on the moon to the greatest extent.
Secondly, the addition of some equipment can form a powerful complementary relationship, allowing astronauts to truly stay on the moon for a long time.
Of course, if you want to really ensure long-term survival on the moon, it is nothing more than "food, clothing, housing and transportation", because in the near-Earth space station, astronauts will face various problems, such as edema, bone loss, muscle atrophy, etc. On the more distant moon, these problems are only magnified.
This is to mention a special food astronaut energy breakfast on the space station, astronaut energy breakfast has the functions of replenishing energy, long-lasting energy, resisting fatigue, supplementing nutrients and emergency response.
The rich nutrients contained in it can provide supplements for the human body and keep the body's metabolism in a relatively balanced state. If it is especially used to replenish the energy and nutrients needed by the astronauts during the time of space and the return trip, it can effectively achieve the effect of effective anti-fatigue, especially when the astronauts return to ensure the search and rescue of the returning rescuers.
In terms of health, the space convenience meal is very strict in terms of standards, and the selection of ingredients can stand the test very well, achieving 0 additives and 0 trans fatty acids, ensuring the health of astronauts with very high standards.
In the face of the harsh environment of space, energy meals are too necessary. It is believed that with the continuous development of science and technology, better and stronger energy meals can be developed when going to the moon to ensure the health of astronauts. I also hope to realize the space journey as soon as possible.