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What happens if you die in space? Ever thought about the dark side of life among the stars?

If you do happen to croak, what happens to you?

You'll be surprised to know that NASA actually has no official protocol for this grim circumstance. Astronauts usually spend only six months at a time in space on board the International Space Station,

and they must undergo rigorous vetting, including intense medical examinations before they get there.

In his book, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, astronaut Chris Hadfield revealed all about a chilling training exercise called a death sim.

This is usually a roundtable discussion where one astronaut is announced as having died

and the others must hypothesize about what to do about it.

There are no body bags or special lockers on board, so the simplest solution is to just

pop the ship's

airlock and jettison the body out into the vacuum of space, Spock style.

But a UN agreement says you can't litter in space, and that includes dumping corpses.

It's equally impractical to keep a body aboard a spacecraft, and adding a mini mausoleum

would likely cost millions. One of the most

interesting solutions is the product of a collab between the Green Burial Company Promessa and NASA

dubbed the body back. This basically involves an airtight sleeping bag that a human corpse is

zipped into, then exposed to the freezing temperatures of outer space.

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