Navajo Nation Claims Right to Interfere in Private Space Launch Missions -- Threaten Mankind's Future Progress
Navajo Nation fails to establish credible, legitimate objections to future space flights, misleads about not wanting to use this as a bargaining chip ...
BY ML SHAW
No government or private company on Earth needs to check in with any native peoples’ tribes to get permission for scientific, private or public activities on the Moon.
Entertaining these insane piece-meal requests would kneecap humanity’s future in space. The general public must ignore some native people’s backwards looking views.
The American people know exactly what the hard left will say and do once they slime all over this issue. It is important the government and private sector push back hard and return an absolute and unequivocal “NO”.
“Buu Nygren, President of Navajo Nation, said the federal government has an obligation to consult with Indigenous tribes about missions involving human remains on the moon.”
"The moon holds a sacred place in Navajo cosmology," he wrote. "The suggestion of transforming it into a resting place for human remains is deeply disturbing and unacceptable to our people and many other tribal nations."
“We are aware of the concerns expressed by Mr. Nygren, but do not find them substantive,” Celestis CEO Charles Chafer told CNN.”
- 💫 Celestis, a Houston-based company, offers space burial services, launching human ashes and DNA into space since 1997.
- 🌕 The Navajo Nation opposes human remains being sent to the moon, considering it sacred, but legal frameworks allow such ventures.
- 🚀 Services include sending remains to Earth orbit, the moon, and deep space, with costs ranging from $3,000 to $13,000.
- 🛰️ Celestis has famous clients such as Gene Roddenberry and Arthur C. Clarke, along with astronauts, engineers, artists, and space enthusiasts.
- 🌌 Chafer secures payload space on existing launches and names flights like Tranquility or Odyssey.
- 📦 Customers receive kits to send ashes, with a portion transferred to small capsules for space travel.
- 💼 The funeral industry envisions expanding to other celestial bodies as space exploration progresses.
source:
Space Burial Firm Creates a Dust-Up By Sending Ashes to the Moon - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/moon-cremated-ashes-space-flight-8fa879a2?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
Navajo Nation objects to a plan to send human remains to the moon - OPB
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/01/08/navajo-human-remains-moon/
White House responds to Navajo Nation request to delay mission that would land human remains on the moon | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/world/peregrine-moon-mission-navajo-nation-objection-human-remains-scn/index.html
Navajo Nation fights sending human remains to the moon (axios.com)
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/navajo-nation-human-remains-moon-sacred