A Houston-based aerospace company announced on Thursday that it hopes to begin a commercial service of sending human ashes to the moon.

UP Aerospace, Inc. -- www.upaerospace.com -- a Connecticut-based company and world leader in affordable space access, has announced with Celestis, Inc., a division of Space Services, Inc., a joint venture to conduct regularly scheduled post-cremation memorial space flights.

UP Aerospace, Inc. -- www.upaerospace.com -- a Connecticut-based company and world leader in affordable space access, has announced with Celestis, Inc., a division of Space Services, Inc., a joint venture to conduct regularly scheduled post-cremation memorial space flights.

Taiwan is one of the most densely populated places in the world, and there's not much more room for new cemeteries. But a U.S. firm is offering a solution: shooting people's remains into space. The Houston-based Celestis Inc.