https://www.siliconvalley.com/2023/11/26/rest-in-space-an-astronaut-gets-a-celestial-burial/

In death, Berkeley space scientist and astronaut Michael Lampton is venturing where he could never go in life: into orbit.

In late December, small samples of the cremated remains of Lampton and 233 others, packed into a satellite’s cargo bay, will hitch a ride on a commercial rocket to make vast and eternal loops around the sun — more than 200 million miles from home.