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** Well, Laika ''died'' in space, which doesn't really count as a burial. Sputnik 2 re-entered five months later.
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* A portion of Gene Shoemaker's ashes were placed on the Lunar Prospector probe that was deliberately crashed into the Moon in 1999, making Shoemaker the only human to be buried on another world.
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* The ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Sting" did this with the reference to ''{{Star Trek II}}''.
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* The ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Sting" did this with the reference to referencing ''{{Star Trek II}}''.
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Don\'t respond. If it neds fixing, then fix it. This isn\'t a comment or blog, it\'s a factual trope.
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* The ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Sting" did this. It may have been referencing ''{{Star Trek II}}''.
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* The ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Sting" did this. It may have been referencing this with the reference to ''{{Star Trek II}}''.
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** May have? Have you forgotten Scruffy playing the bagpipes.
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* ''The Mote In God's Eye''. The bodies of the Marines who died evacuating the battlecruiser [=MacArthur=] were shot out into space from Lenin's torpedo tubes. They were then vaporized by blasts from Lenin's weapons, so the Moties couldn't retrieve the bodies and study them.
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* ''The Mote In God's Eye''.''TheMoteInGodsEye''. The bodies of the Marines who died evacuating the battlecruiser [=MacArthur=] were shot out into space from Lenin's torpedo tubes. They were then vaporized by blasts from Lenin's weapons, so the Moties couldn't retrieve the bodies and study them.
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* Parodied in the ''FamilyGuy'' episode where Stewie's teddy bear is accidentally shipped away, and as a result he and Brian try to get it back.
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* Laika the dog.
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''{{Babylon 5}}''
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Not only was it misplaced, already covered in the Literature section
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* Also happens in one of the ''{{Halo}}'' novels.
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* This trope is mentioned in the ChzoMythos, where one of the astronauts mentions that it was popular in the 21st century for people to send their remains into space. Too bad the Space Coffin ''they'' stumble across contains the remains of John Defoe.
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* This trope is mentioned in the ChzoMythos, ''ChzoMythos'', where one of the astronauts mentions that it was popular in the 21st century for people to send their remains into space. Too bad the Space Coffin ''they'' stumble across contains the remains of John Defoe.
[=Defoe=].
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* ''WingCommander'' has one of these whenever one of the pilots (including the player) dies.
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* ''WingCommander'' ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' has one of these whenever one of the pilots (including the player) dies.
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* Apollo 13, almost. Plans for a burial-at-space, similar to a burial-at-sea, were made, to be performed in case of a disaster; but fortunately, the crew survived.
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->From the stars we came, and to the stars we return, from now until the end of time. We therefore commit this body to the deep.
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* Dizzy Flores in the ''StarshipTroopers'' film.
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* Dizzy Flores in the ''StarshipTroopers'' ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' film.
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If someone could find a more specific source...
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** In Heinlein's later novel ''Time Enough for Love'', Lazarus Long discusses how he did this to Andy Libby after the unfortunate fellow was mauled by a bear. Later, in ''TheNumberOfTheBeast'', he uses TimeTravel to go back and retrieve Andy's corpse so it can be rejuvenated.
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* ''StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' is undoubtedly the most famous example, and is although from this list it is not the oldest. The coffin/torpedo was actually fired ''at a planet''; also a major part of the set-up for ''StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''
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* ''StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' is undoubtedly the most famous example, and is although from this list it is not the oldest. The coffin/torpedo coffin/torpedo/[[{{Seinfeld}} giant sunglasses case]] was actually fired ''at a planet''; also a major part of the set-up for ''StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''
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** James Doohan's ashes were also launched into space, but returned to Earth much sooner.
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* In CJCherryh's ''The Faded Sun'', this is the preferred burial of warrior-caste mri.
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* In CJCherryh's ''The Faded Sun'', this is the preferred burial of warrior-caste mri. In the whole ''Allience Union'' universe, being sent to the sun seems to be the preferred burial method among those identify themselves as spacers.
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** Also used in GundamSEEDDestiny, with [[spoiler: Meer Campbell.]]
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** Also in "one Small Step" where the crew has a funeral with full honors for an early space explorer.
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** In a variation, Alderaanians mostly have their space coffins shot into "the Graveyard", the shattered remnants of their destroyed planet.
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*** When a body ''can't'' be recovered, as happened to [[XWingSeries Jesmin Ackbar]], a torpedo is used as a symbolic stand-in.
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* In ''[[TMNT2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003), the Fugitoid gets this treatment after he makes his heroic sacrifice at the end of the "Worlds Collide" arc.
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* An episode of [[{{Superfriends}} The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians]] saw Superman recieve a space-burial after deadly exposure to Kryptonite. HeGotBetter.
* An episode of [[{{Superfriends}} The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians]] saw Superman recieve a space-burial after deadly exposure to Kryptonite. HeGotBetter.
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[[caption-width-right:264: Too many to remember. Too many to allow to be forgotten.]]
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* In ''Halo: The Fall of Reach'' the bodies of the Spartans that "washed out" (read: died) of the augmentation process are launched out of the torpedo tubes of a ship with appropriate military funeral procession.
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* CrestOfTheStars has a planet that sends their dead into space on a rocket, the protagonists manage to escape said planet by hiding in a coffin.
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* Silbad in ''TimeMasters'' after DiabolusExMachina kicks in. His short funeral is looked over by one of the bizarre aliens that caused his {{temporal paradox}} death.
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* ''Universal War One'': John Baltimore ('Balti')is buried in space.
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* Happens in various ways in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, mostly the XWingSeries.
** Corran's father's ashes were left to drift in space, apparently not in a container. While dating the daughter of his father's mortal enemy, he once jokes that his father's ashes are trying to coalesce to stop him.
** The drifting coffins variety seems to be the most popular version of this trope when a pilot's body can be recovered, appearing in several {{Meaningful Funeral}}s. They're often [[TractorBeam tractored]] out into space and nudged towards the star.
** {{StarWars/Allegiance}} has a mortally wounded spacer named Tannis ask Mara Jade that she "bury him in space". She does.
** Corran's father's ashes were left to drift in space, apparently not in a container. While dating the daughter of his father's mortal enemy, he once jokes that his father's ashes are trying to coalesce to stop him.
** The drifting coffins variety seems to be the most popular version of this trope when a pilot's body can be recovered, appearing in several {{Meaningful Funeral}}s. They're often [[TractorBeam tractored]] out into space and nudged towards the star.
** {{StarWars/Allegiance}} has a mortally wounded spacer named Tannis ask Mara Jade that she "bury him in space". She does.
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* ''EnemyMine'' has this in one scene, but with a twist of WarIsHell impersonality: the casualties from the Drac War are so numerous, that the coffins are constantly being loaded into the airlock by an ''automatic conveyor belt'', stopping just long enough for the bored technicians on duty to check the deceased's religion and play the appropriate prerecorded last rites.
