SpaceX sent EVE Online player’s ashes into space during last Falcon 9 launch

A few days ago SpaceX has carried out the launch of the carrier rocket Falcon 9 in the mission Transporter-1, and set a record for the number of satellites launched into orbit in a single flight. As it turned out, among the payload was the ashes of the player in EVE Online Bruce Paradox Olbers McPhee (Bruce MacPhee). He died in 2019 at the age of 72, which saddened his comrades and friends in the CCP Games project. During the last Falcon 9 launch, SpaceX sent Bruce McPhee’s ashes into space, fulfilling his wish.

Corresponding news was shared by another user of EVE Online, Charles Space Pope White (Charles White). In his microblog, he wrote: “The ashes of a player in EVE Online went into space on [a rocket] SpaceX. He was my great friend and disabled person, virtual worlds were his life. He told me, “I only see three people a year, but in SL and EVE I see hundreds of friends.” Fly, Para, fly. ” Bruce McPhee has always dreamed of being onboard a rocket, so his wish came true, albeit posthumously.

As a reminder, we previously wrote that the Falcon 9 had 143 satellites, including 48 SuperDove Earth observation satellites for Planet, several miniature CubeSats, 17 tiny communication satellites for Kepler from Toronto, one small nanosatellite called Charlie for Aurora Insight, 30 small satellites for the US and Europe, packaged by Berlin-based German company Exolaunch, 10 of its own Starlink satellites and a range of Celestis human ashes capsules.