The Vulcan launch vehicle was launched from Florida on Monday. The cargo is a bullet launcher, which also has the remains of dozens of people and at least one animal in its cargo.
Stateside the living Navajo are dismayed by the ongoing hearing, which involves taking the ashes of the deceased to the Moon.
“Placing human remains on the Moon fundamentally desecrates this celestial body, which our people deeply respect,” states the leader of the indigenous Navajo people Buu Nygren messaging service on Facebook.
Buu Nygren, leader of the Navajo Nation, attended an American Indian Day event in Albuquerque, New Mexico last February.
It's about is about a kind of clash of cultures in the chamber of the Moon.
The Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle, developed by the arms and aviation companies Boeing and Lockheed Martin, was launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Monday at 9:18 a.m. Finnish time.
During the rocket's journey, the ball lander Peregrine (Muuttohaukka in Finnish) manufactured by the Astrobotic company went into space.
The purpose of the unmanned hearing is scientific – the United States plans to send people to the Moon in the next few years – but Peregrine's cargo also carries the remains of dozens of people and at least one animal.
The launch of the Vulcan launch vehicle was filmed at Cape Canaveral, Florida on Monday night.
Of the dead delivering ashes to the moon is a commercial activity. The service has been offered by companies called Elysium Space and Celestis.
There is no information about Elysium's taxis, but with the Celestis company, the cheapest price for ash transport is 12,995 dollars (about 11,900 euros).
Celestis seems to be looking for a boost in its business from the big names in science fiction and space series. According to the AFP news agency, a writer is currently being taken to the moon By Arthur C. Clarke and cult series Star Trek the creator Gene Roddenberry ashes.
The Celestis company's load contains a total of 69 human and one dog ashes. The dog was called Indica-Noodle Fabiano.
Cultures the clash arises from the fact that the Moon is significantly more to the Navajos than just an orbiter of the Earth.
“In Navajo cosmology, the Moon is inherently sacred,” Navajo leader Buu Nygren said in a statement last week. According to him, many other indigenous people think the same way.
Cosmology means the study of the structure of the universe.
Navajos are the largest of the indigenous peoples of the United States. As with the native population of North America in general, the Navajo have a glorious, on the one hand, an unusually heavy history on the other.
A Navajo man in 1914. In the photo's accompanying information, his name is stated as “Jim”.
The Navajo Nation's current own territory, Navajo Nation, is located in the southwestern parts of the United States and is 70,000 square kilometers in size – roughly a fifth of Finland's area.
The Navajo people live in the area according to the administration more than 250,000 Navajos.
The Navajo region is ruggedly beautiful. The picture is from Arizona in 2018.
Before launch of the launch vehicle, the Navajos demanded to take a time-out.
“We are not trying to claim the Moon as our own,” Buu Nygren said on US Public Radio on Sunday NPR's in the program. “We're not trying to claim heaven or the universe or anything else, but we should act respectfully.”
According to NPR, ash transportation was discussed all the way up to the White House, i.e. the presidential administration. However, NASA, the US space agency, stated that when spaceflight is a private business, the authority cannot dictate what is or is not in the cargo.
To the moon the transported remains have been disputed before.
In 1998, an American astronomer by Eugene Shoemaker ashes were delivered to the orbiter's chamber with NASA's Lunar Prospector space probe.
The Navajo people's protests did not help at that time either, but the Navajo were promised to be consulted in similar situations in the future.
“Our position now was the same as in the 1990s, because time and promises do not expire,” Buu Nygren said in an interview with NPR.
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