Whether your loved one was a Star Trek fan, science fiction buff or just always wanted a ride in a rocket, we can help.
With modern technology, launching ashes by rocket is within the reach of everyone’s budget. Ashes are dispersed over a wide area with the prevailing winds from a great height. The payload, carefully wrapped in a silk carrier can be just a few grams or the entire contents of the urn. Dispersal a mile high or higher is no problem, depending on launch site. Launches can be held in the day or at night.
Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, was one of the first people to have their ashes carried into space. A portion James Doohan’s ashes, AKA Scotty in many Star Trek episodes, have also left Earth.
NASA’s launched samples of ashes to the moon and even on a mission past the planet Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh ashes, the astronomer discoverer of Pluto, were on that spacecraft. He will be the first person to escape the solar system and travel among the stars. Several of the early US astronauts have had space burials.
The Sentiment package offer one of the 256 shot Celebration of Life barrages, and one of the Spirit in the Sky barrages with 8 of our large ashes rockets launching your loved one into the heavens. This tribute package incorporates 800g of your loved one’s ashes. Once you have placed your order we will send you a pre-paid courier label and a secure container to add the correct amount of ashes to, which is then returned to us for our technicians to incorporate into your fireworks.
This 256 shot single ignition barrage provides a series of outstanding effects including stunning crackling comet tails to silver popcorn crackle, to gold tails with vibrant red and green stars foll…
Our Eternal Package includes two of each tribute, giving you two Celebrations of Life, two Spirit in the Sky and two sets of four Ashes rockets to celebrate your loved ones life. This pack can contain up to 1200g of your loved ones ashes for scattering.
These wonderful rockets will fill the sky with amazing big bursting effects, including stunning golden crackle flowers, vivid blue and green peony, purple coconut with cauliflower and not forgetting the beautiful gold blink willow. This firework incorporates 200g of your loved one’s ashes.
The larger legacy packages offers one of the 256 shot Celebration of Life barrages, with 8 of our large ashes rockets launching your loved one into the heavens. This tribute packages incorporates 600g of your loved ones ashes
This popular mini-memorial display combines our stunning 256 shot Celebration of Life Firework with Four of our big ashes tribute rockets, with effects reaching into over 200ft in the air, sending your loved one off in style. The tribute package incorporates 400g of your loved one’s ashes.
Whether your loved one was a Star Trek fan, science fiction buff or just always wanted a ride in a rocket, we can help. With modern technology, launching ashes by rocket is within the reach of everyone’s budget. Ashes are dispersed over a wide area with the prevailing winds from a great height. The payload, carefully wrapped in a silk carrier can be just a few grams or the entire contents of the urn. Dispersal a mile high or higher is no problem, depending on launch site. Launches can be held in the day or at night. Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, was one of the first people to have their ashes carried into space. A portion James Doohan’s ashes, AKA Scotty in many Star Trek episodes, have also left Earth. NASA’s launched samples of ashes to the moon and even on a mission past the planet Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh ashes, the astronomer discoverer of Pluto, were on that spacecraft. He will be the first person to escape the solar system and travel among the stars. Several of the early US astronauts have had space burials. To read more about Ash Scattering Rockets click here
The Spirit in the Sky low noise 170 shot barrage offers a variety of mixed effects and firing angles to fill the sky with delightful effects including a blue tail to white strobe waterfall, silverfish with blue core, red and green falling leaves and stunning glittering gold brocade horsetail over a 2-minute duration. This firework incorporates 200g of your loved ones’ ashes.
The Grand Send-Off offers the full incorporation of your loved one’s ashes into a selection of ten barrages and 12 large rockets to create a stunning tribute to your loved one.
Scattering ashes by model rocket within the earth’s atmosphere is more personal and local, not to mention less dear than a trip to orbit or beyond. It is legal to disperse ashes anywhere in the United Kingdom but rocket launches are restricted in some areas such as near airports or cities.
Depending on the mission desired, all or a portion of the cremains can be lofted as a payload to the height desired and over the location requested whenever possible. A memorial ceremony can be held before launch and the launch button can be pressed by an appropriate relation. A keepsake video of the launch can be made. The carrier vehicle can be recovered as a memento or destroyed.
Cremation ashes urns come in all shapes and sizes, but will the one you want contain all the ashes you have?
You won’t be able to launch all the ash you have in the rocket but it can spread over several launches
So if you don’t want to remove the ashes from the container and weigh them separately, then you have to deduct the weight of the urn.
Ashes tend come back from the crematoria or funeral director usually in a limited range of containers but Comparethecoffin supply a full range at the lowest wholesale price. If ordered with the coffin we are able to offer an additional discount.
In recent years the has been a trend to move to more sustainable and natural material for coffins. They often have a softer look and feel and have no ‘hard edges’ or corners and our coffins have no metal fixing and often ties and fixing are made with the materials itself.
The products that we don’t make in the UK are either manufactured by co-operative associations or are covered by a fair trade agre ements ensuring that all workers and suppliers are treated fairly and work in good and safe conditions.
In line with our strong green beliefs, all of our products are manufactured in the most environm entally friendly way. Our products are hand made from locally materials grown and cropped in licensed p lantations.
English Willow Coffin
The English Willow has been grown in England on the Somerset Levels for many centuries and has the ability to regenerate repeatedly from the same “crown” of the plant for up to 40 years. Willow colour variations are achieved naturally by drying, boiling or stripping the bark.
Bamboo Coffin
Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on the planet, growing up to a metre per day. The Chinese have a saying that the only way to control its spread is to eat the shoots. Bamboo is also incredibly strong, with a tensile strength greater that that of steel. There is a 300 metre long suspension bridge in South China which hangs from bamboo cables fastened over a canyon; it does not have a single metal nail, screw or bolt in its construction.
Please Note: Panda bears do not eat the species of bamboo which are used to make our products.
Banana Coffin
The banana, believed to have originated from the jungles of Asia, is generally mistaken for a tree, but is actually the world’s largest herb. Their main stem can reach a height of up to 8 metres, though it is not actually formed of wood, but the tightly coiled leaves of the plant. Our banana coffins are made using these dried leaves after the tree has produced its fruit and the stem is cut back each year.
European Willow Coffin
Our European willow products are hand made to by a co-operative of cottage industries in Poland. The willow is a deciduous shrub found primarily on moist soil in cold and temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere. Almost all European willows take root very readily from cuttings or even where broken branches lie on the ground.
Fabric Coffin
These are UK Manufactured cardboard coffins covered with a decorated ‘Pall’ either Fragrant Root or Woven Banana Leaf. Both these options are hand made in fair trade facility in Indonesia. Gives a unique look and very good value.
Fabric Coffin
These are UK Manufactured cardboard coffins covered with a decorated ‘Pall’ either Fragrant Root or Woven Banana Leaf. Both these options are hand made in fair trade facility in Indonesia. Gives a unique look and very good value.
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