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Some lives were never meant to stay in one place. A symbolic portion of ashes, launched to Earth orbit aboard SpaceX Falcon 9. From $249. Rest Among the Stars.

At Space Beyond, we are democratizing access to space. We believe that everyone deserves a chance to honor and remember their loved ones, without the usual astronomical cost. Ashes to Space provides a uniquely cost-effective opportunity to celebrate the life of your loved ones among the stars.

10/30/2026

The long nights start Sunday, and they're hard when you're missing someone.

The house goes dark early. The holidays aren't far behind.

But the stars show up early too.

One night this week, step outside and look up. Say their name.

Under a minute. Sound on.

10/23/2026

Several people have asked me to share more about my path to Space Beyond. So I finally wrote it all down: growing up obsessed with rockets, three aerospace companies, a moment that sparked an idea, and how I landed on $249.

Read it here:
https://ashestospace.com/about-the-founder/

10/16/2026

October 17 is the first-ever National Cremation Placement Day, a new annual observance recognizing something millions of families are still carrying: cremated remains with no clear plan for what comes next.

We think that's worth marking. Swipe through for what we'd add to the conversation, permanent placement doesn't have to mean the ground.

Read the full post:
https://ashestospace.com/national-cremation-placement-day/

10/09/2026

On one of their first dates 25 years ago, Bryan Luther told his future wife, Nicole, about a dream he'd never let go of: he wanted to go to Space Camp.

He carried that same sense of wonder into raising their two daughters, Emma and Harper. Nicole says he was the heart of their family.

"His death rocked the girls and I to our very core," she wrote. "He wasn't just a part of our lives—he was the heart of our family. He was our everything."

So she asked herself the question every family in grief eventually asks: how do you honor someone who meant everything to you?

Her answer: you send him on the adventure he'd dreamed about. His very own Space Camp.

A portion of Bryan's ashes will launch to orbit Earth aboard our 2027 Remembrance-1 mission.

Read his full tribute:
https://ashestospace.com/ashtronaut-tribute-bryan-j-luther/

10/02/2026

Gail Snow wanted to see Scotland her whole life. She never made it there.

Her husband Timothy didn't let that be the end of the story. He bought her a symbolic square foot of land in Scotland, which made her a Lady. Lady Gail Ann Snow, proclamation and all.

"Hopefully someday her ashes will fly over Scotland," he told us.

A portion of Gail's ashes will launch to orbit Earth aboard an upcoming Ashes to Space mission. The orbit covers the whole planet, Scotland included. She'll get her trip after all. Over the years Remembrance stays in orbit, it'll cross directly over Scotland an estimated 1,450 times, about five or six times a week.

Gail's first grandchild, Stella May Snow, never got the chance to meet her. Timothy added Stella's name to our Remembrance Roster — no ashes required for that one, just her name — so grandmother and granddaughter are flying together anyway.

Read her full Ashtronaut Tribute:
https://ashestospace.com/ashtronaut-lady-gail-ann-snow/

09/25/2026

Right now, an elderly man wants to send his own ashes to space, one day soon. A daughter wants to send her mother, who dreamed of being an astronaut. A few more are working toward this, each for reasons of their own.

$249 is the only thing in the way. Not doubt. It's cost.

Sponsor a Journey covers the whole thing for someone else: the launch, the tracking, even the $50 name engraving most people pay for separately. A $299 memorial, given in full.

If you've already signed up to send someone you love to space with us, you know what this gives a family. Now you can give that to someone else.

Sponsor a Journey:
https://ashestospace.com/product/ashes-to-space-sponsor-a-journey/

09/18/2026

If you've ever wondered whether Space Beyond is the real deal, you're not the only one.

TechCrunch, SpaceNews, USA TODAY, and CBS News all looked into us before they wrote about us. So did trade press for the funeral industry, and a handful of radio and podcast outlets along the way.

We put it all in one place. No sales pitch, just what actual reporters found when they checked us out for themselves.

Read it here:
https://ashestospace.com/is-space-beyond-real/

09/11/2026

Today is 25 years since September 11, 2001.

9/11 is one of those moments you never forget. Where you were. What you were doing when it happened.

I was in my college Chemistry lecture when the first plane hit. We didn't know. I rode my bike back to my dorm and found everyone huddled around our one communal TV, debating what had caused the first fire, when the second plane hit.

We were all stunned.

In the days that followed, we queued up in long lines to donate blood, wondered if we'd be called up for military service, and cried at candlelight vigils as the worship team led us in singing "It Is Well With My Soul."

Two nights ago, 2,977 drones formed the Twin Towers in light over New York Harbor, one for every life lost. People stood on the shore and looked up together, the way we did 25 years ago, for a very different reason.

Where were you when you heard?

09/11/2026

Barbara Giaquinto used to talk about how cool it would be to have one's ashes sent to space.

Not as something she expected for herself. Just something she kept saying: sending someone's ashes to space, wouldn't that be something. Her son Matty remembered.

Barbara was an artist, an equitarian, and by her family's account, the biggest Star Trek fan you'd ever meet. Matty says she had a gift for making ordinary moments feel bigger than they were: "Everything was exciting when I was around her, whether we were on a family vacation or just going to the grocery store."

When it came time to decide what to do with her ashes, he didn't have to guess. She'd already told him, even if she didn't realize it at the time.

A portion of Barbara's ashes will launch to orbit Earth aboard our 2027 Remembrance-1 mission.

She's not the first Trekkie whose ashes have made this trip either. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's have flown three times since 1992. There's a short note on that history on her tribute page.

Read her full Ashtronaut Tribute:
https://ashestospace.com/ashtronaut-tribute-barbara-giaquinto/

09/04/2026

Watch what your body instinctively does the next time you're standing in front of a grave or an urn on a shelf.

Shoulders in. Arms folded. Eyes down.

I don't think that's the only way grief has to look.

Read: https://ashestospace.com/the-posture-of-grief/

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