Ashes to ashes, stardust to stardust. Space Funerals by Ascension flights. A British company has launched a brand new service that sends the remains of your loved ones into space. Their ashes will be released into the cosmos, making the space their final resting place starting from £800 (around $1,050). The Ascension 1 craft – a payload box fitted with a camera, tracking device, and release mechanism attached to a balloon filled with gas hydrogen – launches from a site in Yorkshire. Once the cra

On January 2, 2004, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by comet Wild 2 to collect some comet dust and bring it back to Earth. Discover more space history 👉 https://trib.al/rTUJu3D Stardust was the first robotic sample return mission of its kind. It didn't land on the comet, but it flew close enough to collect dust grain samples from the comet's coma. This is the cloudy region around a comet where evaporating ice and other particles are blown away from the comet's surface, forming the comet's chara