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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman will blast her husband's ashes into space on a Russian rocket to fulfil his last wish.
Urte Mueller, 58, a nurse from Berlin, said she has paid an American company 11,000 euros ($10,930) to arrange for her husband Heinz's ashes to be taken into orbit. Some 10 grams (0.35 oz) will be sent up in a capsule the size of a lipstick.
The rocket is scheduled to blast off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in January 2003, and will jettison the capsule into orbit where it will circle the earth for about five to six years before disintegrating and dispersing its contents.
Mueller will not be on board the rocket or even at the launch site although she will get a video of the take-off.
"Once the capsule breaks up, there's no telling where your ashes will end up. They may even make their way back to the sun, who knows?" she told Reuters by telephone.
Urte Mueller, 58, a nurse from Berlin, said she has paid an American company 11,000 euros ($10,930) to arrange for her husband Heinz's ashes to be taken into orbit. Some 10 grams (0.35 oz) will be sent up in a capsule the size of a lipstick.
The rocket is scheduled to blast off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in January 2003, and will jettison the capsule into orbit where it will circle the earth for about five to six years before disintegrating and dispersing its contents.
Mueller will not be on board the rocket or even at the launch site although she will get a video of the take-off.
"Once the capsule breaks up, there's no telling where your ashes will end up. They may even make their way back to the sun, who knows?" she told Reuters by telephone.
