Got $12,500? Send your ashes to the moon — or hold off for a celestial cemetery plot
Can’t get to outer space in this lifetime?
For $12,500, you can send a gram of your cremated remains blasting onto the moon or have them shot out into deep space.
It costs about $5,000 for a “burial” in low-Earth orbit, where a travel-shampoo-size urn can spin for years at 17,000 mph until it gradually descends into the white-hot re-entry atmosphere. That’s what was done with bits of “Star Trek” entertainment franchise creator Gene Roddenberry, and famed write
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