Celebrate a loved one's life and dreams of spaceflight aboard a Celestis Earth Rise Service mission.
The Earth Rise Service includes:
Perseverance, the tenth Celestis Earth Rise service will fly from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a Space X Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Each flight capsule -- containing a symbolic portion of cremated remains or DNA sample -- will experience the elegant dance of weightlessness as it orbits the Earth, and is returned to Earth for recovery. Celestis will then return each participant's flown flight capsule to the family as a keepsake. This will be Celestis' 25th overall memorial spaceflight since its founding in 1994.
The Celestis Perseverance Flight will launch your loved one into Earth Orbit, fulfilling the dreams of spaceflight of all those on board this memorial spaceflight. Once launched, you can the Perseverance Flight as it joins other Celestis memorial spaceflights currently orbiting Earth. You will have the chance to share stories about your loved one, to make new friends, and to witness the power and grandeur of a launch into space: It is an experience you will cherish for years. If you cannot attend in person, you can view the proceedings live, via webcast.
The Perseverance Flight, launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California is the 25th Celestis mission, the 10th Earth Rise mission.
Perseverance is persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success, and well describes the course of many of our mission participants’ lives as well as the history of Celestis as it pioneered this most compelling service.
One of NASA’s most ambitious and successful missions – the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover – was named by a 14 year old 7th grader (the winner of a NASA-sponsored contest) who explained that the Mars mission was just as much about humanity as it was about exploring the Red Planet. He wrote “We are a species of explorers, and we will meet many setbacks on the way to Mars. However, we can persevere…The human race will always persevere into the future."
The Perseverance Flight logo is from well-known designer and illustrator Eric Gignac. Eric’s portfolio also includes co-design of NASA Space Shuttle mission patches for the STS 128 and 133 missions.
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