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Moon burials concern Navajo
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MAY 10, 2000 If you want to be buried on the moon, its going to cost you $12,500. A company in Houston, Texas, is offering earthlings the opportunity to bury themselves or their loved ones on the moon. Celestis Inc. will send your cremated remains on a rocket as early as next year. Just don't count on traditional Navajo to be among the first to sign on. Two years, ago the Navajo Nation received an apology from NASA over a moon burial. In 1999, NASA sent one ounce of the cremated remains of Dr. Eugene Shoemaker, a planetary geologist, aboard its Lunar Prospector. Shoemaker had long dreamed of going to the moon. But unlike that mission, NASA is not involved with Celestis or any of its plans. Of the company's venture, Ray Baldwin Louis, a Navajo Nation spokesman said " It's unfortunate that people have to come up with schemes any way they can just to make money." Staff and news wires contributed to this report.
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