/data/photo/2017/11/05/3469303139.jpg "Astronauts Die in Space, NASA Plans an Ecological Burial for Astronauts")
KOMPAS.com- What would happen if astronaut died in outer space? This is an unanswered question.
What procedures will be carried out considering they were currently in outer space.
Leaving the corpse in a spaceship may not be the best option, given the possibility that it will smell and become a den of bacteria when it decays.
Science fiction films over the years have often depicted corpses being released into space. But apparently UN law prohibits the dumping of corpses in space.
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Quoting IFL Science, Monday (3/5/2021) this made the National Space Agency United States of America (NASA) then try to take the initiative to create ideas funeral in an ethical space.
NASA then asked several research groups to come up with a viable idea for burials in outer space.
In collaboration with ecological funeral company Promessa, one group proposed an idea called Body Back.
The idea of a funeral in space, for the astronauts who died there, was inspired by the journey humans will take to Mars.
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First, the body must be removed from view and prevented from polluting the air inside the spacecraft as it decays.
The body will be put in a Gore-Tex bag and sealed. Up to this stage nothing is really not very innovative.
The body will not be sent back to Earth because it is impossible. The body also cannot be cremated because it has the potential to cause danger.
So the team from NASA also thought that the bodies would get ecological changes.
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The body will be frozen and then vibrated using a robotic arm until it is shaped like dust.
The corpse powder can then be stored and can be returned to the family.
The idea was actually developed in 2005, but was not heard from since then.
In 2013, Promessa’s founder announced that NASA, along with an unspecified private sector, was ready to adopt an ecological burial plan.
In an emergency during a trip to Mars, an astronaut died in space, will be buried in a way ecological cemetery the.
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