 William Shatner wants to send your DNA to the moon. No, really. The Star Trek legend, 92, has actually debuted a new service that will let paying customers send their DNA to the moon for just the small price of $150,000 (£114,582). Speaking to a small crowd assembled outside Hollywood's Chinese Theatre this week, Shatner said: 'I'm going to die, and I'm going to disappear. What can I do? 'Here we have the possibility of a type of immortality.' Shatner – who played Captain James T. Kirk in the 1960s series – has become the first paying customer to splash out on the unique service in a bid for immortality. He's also an investor and brand ambassador for the Houston-based startup Space Crystals. The actor wants to be immortalised after he dies (Picture: Stewart Cook/Shutterstock) It's said that, through the company's Immortalise Me program, people can have their DNA grown into a pair of crystals on board a spaceship. While one crystal is given back to the individual, the second is sent to the moon on board a lunar time capsule. The service is set to launch (pardon the pun) next year. In case you're considering it and wondering what is included in the $150k, you are sent a DNA kit to submit a strand of hair. The fee also covers the processing of the DNA in a crystalline solution, the crystalline solution's flight to the International Space Station, and the transport of the crystal to the moon, where it stays attached to the lunar lander. Company founder Kevin Heath said: 'Our clients can hold their keepsake crystal in their hand, look up in the night sky and know a part of themselves is there, tied together through space and time in what we call the crystal connection.' So, would you do it? You can send your DNA to the moon for the small price of $150,000 (Picture: Stewart Cook/Shutterstock) Customers are given a crystal to keep (Picture: Stewart Cook/Shutterstock) This is far from th){kind=link}
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William Shatner wants to send your DNA to the moon. No, really.
The Star Trek legend, 92, has actually debuted a new service that will let paying customers send their DNA to the moon for just the small price of $150,000 (£114,582).
Speaking to a small crowd assembled outside Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre this week, Shatner said: ‘I’m going to die, and I’m going to disappear. What can I do?
‘Here we have the possibility of a type of immortality.’