A small rocket carrying ashes for a suborbital memorial service blew up seconds after launch, but the company claims the precious payload managed to survive.
Up Aerospace launched its suborbital rocket on Monday at 12:45 p.m. ET from Spaceport America. The rocket was carrying over a dozen student experiment payloads for NASA, as well as the cremated remains of a late NASA astronaut and aAbout three seconds after liftoff, however,Incredibly, the cremated ashes survived the explosion and have been recovered, according to space memorial service Celestis.
“All 120 flight capsules are safely in the hands of launch personnel and will be returned to us awaiting our next flight,” Charles Chafer, Celestis co-founder and CEO, explained in an. “While the rocket was destroyed in flight, the care and professionalism of our launch service provider—The Texas-basedto space, designs its missions to ensure there’s aaccording to Chafer.
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