July 13, 2023 04:58 pm | Updated 04:58 pm ISTGerry and Elizabeth Paulus love taking road trips across the United States, and soon they’ll be preparing for what they call their "ultimate road trip" - one that will take them into deep space. The couple from Mesa, Arizona, will be sending their DNA into space in the upcoming Enterprise mission being launched by Celestis, a space burials company based out of Houston, Texas. While space burials are not a new concept, the company is preparing for their first deep space flight, orbiting around the sun indefinitely. "That repository is going to be 330 million kilometers out into space," Celestis President Colby Youngblood said. "It's going to be the first ... repository of our civilization out in the universe."

Source: The Hindu July 13, 2023 23:22 UTC