About Celestis

About company

Celestis helps families honor the memory of loved ones through post-cremation memorial spaceflights. It launches cremated human remains into space in a procedure known as a space burial. The company’s heritage encompasses over 30 years of global leadership in private sector space missions and applications, including the first ever private launch into outer space (1982), the first private, post-cremation memorial spaceflight (1997), and the first lunar burial (1999). Celestis is based in Houston, Texas, United States. It was co-founded and is led by Charles M. Chafer, an internationally recognized high technology entrepreneur and pioneer of the commercial space age.