Want to have your ashes blasted into the stratosphere of space when you die? According to a report published by TheNextWeb on Saturday, a former NASA engineer and his new start-up company, Elysium Space, is about to make an extraterrestrial burial possible for the small price of $2,000.

Similar services have been offered in the past: a company called Celestis has been taking “memorial orbital spaceflights” for a decade now, leaving the ashes of many wealthy celebrities–appropriately including several Star Trek veterans–in its wake. However, Celestis has never been very affordable: the price for an orbit and burial is still close to $5,000.

Thomas Civeit, the ex-NASA engineer behind Elysium Space, is out to make an afterlife in space available to a wider audience. The first memorial spaceflight for the company is currently planned for next summer, and the $1,990 ticket will buy customers a metal capsule for the storage of their loved ones’ ashes. Buyers will also be invited to attend the launch of the space shuttle carrying the ashes, and given access to the Elysium Space app for Android and iOS devices, which will allow them to monitor the position of the spacebound casket.

Civeit believes that there is a considerable amount of interest for an outer space burial, and he’s done a lot of market research to back up that assumption. Until now, services like Celestis have simply made memorial spaceflights too expensive to be worth much consideration for most people. Civeit hopes to change that conception with Elysium, simply by getting closer to a price point that more people would consider reasonable. Whether $2,000 is that price point remains to be seen, but Civeit is certainly on the right track by offering a similar service for a much more affordable price.

Despite a congruence of timing, Civeit assured interviewers that the name of his company has nothing to do with the Matt Damon-starring sci-fi parable Elysium, which hit theaters and topped the box office this weekend. “Elysium” is an ages-old word that refers to the Greek afterlife, and Civeit chose the name more than two years ago, completely unaware that a movie of the same title was also in the works.