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Whose ashes sent to ... the moon?

Stephen Hawking

Steve Jobsa

Albert Einstein

Eugene Shoemaker

The first moon burial was that of Dr. Eugene Shoemaker (astronomer), a portion of whose cremated remains were flown to the Moon by NASA. Shoemaker's former colleague Carolyn Porco, a University of Arizona professor, proposed and produced the tribute of having Shoemaker's ashes launched aboard the NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft.

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