Life here nothing special.....prebiotic molecules in interstellar space

[Keith Millea]

I wonder if out there there is some real intelligence!

Oh yeah Peter,there is some real intelligence out there....

Notable individuals buried in space[edit]

Launched into Earth orbit on April 21, 1997

• Timothy Leary, (October 22, 1920May 31, 1996), American writer, psychologist, psychedelic drug advocate, and former Harvard professor.
  

[edit] Buried on the Moon on July 31, 1999

• Dr. Eugene Shoemaker, (April 28, 1928July 18, 1997), astronomer and co-discoverer of Comet ShoemakerLevy 9.
  

[edit] Launched into Earth orbit on December 20, 1999

• Charles Oren Bennett (January 21, 19281999), space illustrator.
  

[edit] Launched into outer space in a trajectory out of the solar system on January 19, 2006

• Clyde Tombaugh (February 4, 1906January 17, 1997), American astronomer and discoverer of Pluto in 1930. The ashes are aboard New Horizons, the first spacecraft to pass by and photograph Pluto. This is the first set of human remains which will escape the solar system to travel among the stars.
  

[edit] Launched into Earth orbit on May 22, 2012

• Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr. (March 6, 1927October 4, 2004), American astronaut. He was one of the original Mercury Seven pilots in the Project Mercury program, the first manned space effort by the United States.[SUP][6][/SUP]
  

[edit] Future space burials

• Majel Barrett (19322008), American actress who played Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series; wife of Gene Roddenberry. Her remains will be launched into space in 2014, as was done in 1997 with the remains of her husband.[SUP][citation needed][/SUP]
  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_burial

[Charles Drago]

Let us not forget the unacknowledged casualties -- animal, human, and maybe others -- of the Space Race who rest among the stars.