A political Death Star could keep the bodies of George Washington, John F. Kennedy and “Star Trek” idols bound to the ground — moon-stricken Native Americans. This is because they claim that Earth, a member of Earth's moon, is their sacred place.
The Biden administration scrambled to placate angry Navajo people Friday, holding a hastily held meeting at the White House. CNN reportedDays before the scheduled launch on Monday of an unmanned commercial rocket carrying cremated remains and a strand of the president's hair.
“The moon is a sacred place in Navajo cosmology,” said Navajo Nation President Boo Nygren.
“The proposal to turn this into a resting place for bodies is deeply disturbing and unacceptable to our people.”
“We're turning the moon into a graveyard, turning it into a garbage dump,” said Justin Ahastin of the Navajo Nation Washington Office.
The two-stage Vulcan Centaur rocket included the late “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry and his wife, returning cast member Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, several fellow actors from the USS Enterprise, and others paid for by their families. It contains the remains of 333 people, including people. For privilege.
Hair samples from three U.S. presidents, Washington, John F. Kennedy, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are also on board, courtesy of the privately owned space burial company Celestis.
“We deny claims that our commemorative spaceflight mission desecrates the moon,” said Celestis CEO Charles Chafer.
“Our monuments on the moon will be treated with respect and respect. No one person or religion owns the moon.”
The 6-foot-tall, 8-foot-wide Peregrine lunar module will drop 62 sets of human remains, individually packed into titanium capsules, onto the moon's surface.
The rest will go into deep space and orbit around the sun.
But the mission has already been hit by delays, with opposition from local residents potentially halting the mission.
