WASHINGTON — The government today approved an American consortium's plan to rocket the cremated remains of 10,330 people into space for a fee of $3,900 each.
The Transportation Department announced tentative approval for a commercially built rocket to launch the world's first space mausoleum from Wallops Island, Va., by mid-1987. The cremated remains would be tucked into tiny gold-colored capsules and sent into orbit in the Van Allen radiation belt 1,900 miles above the Earth for 63 million years.
