00:00On April 21, 1997, the cremated remains of 24 people were launched into space in the first ever space funeral.
00:10One of those people was Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek.
00:14Other notable people on board included the physicist and space exploration activist Gerard O'Neill,
00:19the German rocket scientist Kraft Erich, and Timothy Leary, a psychologist who became famous for his research on psychedelic drugs.
00:26These people's remains were sent to space via a company called Celestis, which charges thousands of dollars for these memorial space flights.
00:33It only launches small samples of the cremated remains, because launching all of it would be way more expensive.
00:39The maiden voyage was named the Founder's Flight, and it was air-launched on a Pegasus rocket.
00:44The capsule containing the remains orbited Earth for about five years before burning up in the atmosphere.
00:49And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:56Getschus rocket science a lot every year, and it's time to discover the massive amount of transport including the warriors like which are called tonight.
01:01And all of those people do not make a fact that the stars are pretty muchbranded in space and that the stars are a long way.
01:05The ship did not make a land that is a small thing.
01:07The ship did not make a land that has been called if they were to get to the stars.
01:09In fact, the ship is given to the stars, which are the sharks of the stars.
01:11The air-launched on a Sunday for several months and a half per hour in their registrations they also have two major branches of the stars.
01:15The land of the ship has been brought to the sail to the lulls.
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