As per Houston Chronicle, A company named Celestis will launch hair samples of three US presidents John F Kennedy, Dwight D Eisenhower, and George Washington into deep space in a Vulcan rocket of the United Launch Alliance before the month ends. Celestis has the expertise in sending cremated remains and DNA samples to outer space. The Enterprise Flight of Celestis, was named in honor of the TV series Star Trek. The flight will also carry the cremation ashes of the Star Trek series creator Gene Roddenberry, his wife Majel Barrett Roddenberry, and a DNA sample of their son.
Colby Youngblood is the president of Celestis. He said, “It is absolutely feasible, from a scientific point, that future researchers can find this flight capsule and study what’s in it.”
In a statement released in 2023, Celestis said that sending DNA samples of late presidents to space could help people learn more about US history in the future. “Off-world DNA storage allows the human genome to be preserved for thousands of years in space without degradation. This means it is possible it could be discovered later, like a cosmic time capsule. It could allow future generations to learn more about the US forefathers millennia into the future”.
Charles M Chafer, the co-founder and CEO of Celestis, said in a statement in 2022, “We’re very pleased to be fulfilling, with this mission, a promise I made to Majel Barrett Roddenberry in 1997 that one day we would fly her and husband Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry together on a deep space memorial spaceflight.”
The ULA rocket is to deploy two satellites, send a private lunar lander to the Moon, and then launch the payload of hair samples and remains into deep space. The hair samples and thimble-sized capsules of cremated remains are to be carried into space by a ULA Vulcan rocket scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
George Washington
The Wikipedia reads: George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and statesman who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the  Continental Army in June 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and then served as president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which drafted and ratified the Constitution of the United States and established the American federal government. Washington has thus been called the “Father of his Country”.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Wikipedia reads: Dwight D. Eisenhower American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army. Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch in the North Africa campaign in 1942–1943 and the invasion of Normandy in 1944.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (also JFK for America)
The Wikipedia reads: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and by the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president and the youngest president at the end of his tenure. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to his presidency.
