Space Is for Billionaires and the Dead

by Charles MudedeGhost Rocket: "View of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket delivering a satellite to space."Jorge Villalba/gettyimages.com
A rocket designed by the corporation owned by batty billionaire Elon Musk, and operated by Spaceflight Industries—a Seattle-based company that manages "rideshare launches"—will send the dust of a 100 or so dead humans into space. The service is provided by a San Francisco-based corporation, Elysium Space, that plans to make some kind of money from "memorial