“No one, and no religion, owns the moon, and, were the beliefs of the world’s multitude of religions considered, it’s quite likely that no missions would ever be approved…Simply, we do not and never have let religious beliefs dictate humanity’s space efforts — there is not and should not be a religious test.”
-Statement by Celestis CEO and co-founder Charles Chafer in an email to Space.com regarding Native American concerns about a NASA -funded rocket taking human remains to the Moon next week. A second company, Elysium Space, will also be placing human remains on the Moon as part of this same mission. NASA separately noted in response to the Native American concerns, “We don’t have the framework for telling [private companies] what they can and can’t fly.”
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