A recent mission from the American spaceflight company, Virgin Galactic, is facing public backlash after it carried the remains of two extinct hominins into space.
and who handed the bones to Nash in a ceremony before the flight.
"I imagine they never could have dreamed while alive of taking such an incredible journey as ambassadors of all of humankind's ancestors."The connection between the human remains and space, they say, is tenuous at best, and while Nash might think that"human advancement requires risks" as heNational Geographic before the mission, scientists find it hard to see how this particular risk serves either paleontology or space travel.
"I am horrified that they were granted a permit," Sonia Zakrzewski, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Southampton,in archaeologist Danika Parikh from the University of Cambridge,"or are ancient human remains from South Africa really being taken to space? And not for any kind of research purpose, but for funsies and publicity?"
Joining the conversation on X, Natalie Kendrick, an Archaeologist Heritage Officer at Heritage Western Cape,that the only reason these remains were allowed to go to space is because they were not deemed 'human' but paleontological. This means that the code of ethics that requires human remains to be treated with dignity doesn't apply to these bones, even though
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