While I’m sorry for the families who’ve unexpectedly lost the remains of their loved ones, I’m genuinely gratified with this outcome.

Capitalism needs to stay out of space.

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The remains and DNA of more than 70 deceased people, including science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, were on board the spacecraft, which is expected to burn up Thursday during reentry to the Earth’s atmosphere after a failure in its propulsion system.

Family and friends who had paid for the company’s Luna Service, which also starts at $12,995, for their loved ones’ remains to travel on the Peregrine lander took to a social media group to grieve.

One woman in the group wrote a message of consolation, saying that their loved ones would still be among “the earliest adventurers to leave our lonely planet” even though they would not reach the moon.

In a December statement, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren urged NASA and the Transportation Department to delay the launch.

“It is crucial to emphasize that the Moon holds a sacred position in many Indigenous cultures, including ours,” Nygren wrote in a Dec. 21 letter to NASA and federal officials.

Deana Weibel, an anthropologist at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, likened the controversy to those at religious sites on Earth, as the moon has been sacred ever since humans could look at it.

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