Elysium

“This way to the Elysium Fields. Keep left,” a High Walker called out.

Those include Celestis and Elysium Space, companies that memorialize people by sending some of their remains to space.

The payloads from Celestis Inc. and Elysium Space are dubbed memorial spaceflights that carry symbolic portions of paying customers’ remains.

NASA’s stationary InSight lander launched to Mars in May 2018, touching down six months later in November in a plain called Elysium Planitia just north of the Martian equator.

For people coming to this far-off Elysium from settled and rooted places points east, The Times offered this comfort, and endorsement of the colony system, in April 1888: