Heaven and beyond: Give your pet a space funeral

Is your pet a stargazer? Does it have that twinkle in its eyes whenever you mention rockets, NASA or the Mars rover? Well, now you can fulfil your pet's wish to be immortalised among the heavenly bodies. 

Celestis Inc, a Texas company which has provided memorial space flights for human remains since 1997, is now offering a truly out-of-this-world send-off for well-loved pets by placing a portion of their cremated remains in a capsule and blasting them off into space.