It's not true.

I'm a life long Mormon but until you posted it here I'd never heard anything about Heaven being a space planet. I know it sounds entertaining but the truth is Mormons believe the same creation story as most Christians found in genesis and that Heaven is a spiritual plane of existance rather than a planet. Sorry if I crushed anyone's beliefs of us as crazy space people.



Being a single woman I don't get a planet. Probably my biggest issue with the mormon church is how they treat single people.

I was born in 1980 so I guess I got lucky and missed the Donny and Marie show. My dad always called it the Donny and Mafreak show. Not sure why.

Would they be sending humans up there to do the mining or robots? I didn't see it in the article.

I was discussing the launch of New Horizons with my younger brother since he likes to complain about the whole "Is Pluto a planet controversy?"

Me: Isn't the fact that we're going to Pluto a great thing?
Him: It's not great until we send a human up there. Nothing counts to me unless people are being sent to other planets. Robotic missions are a waste of time and money.

Now my brother is rather uneducated and misinformed about space exploration as you can see by his statement about robotic missions. When the samples from stardust arrived back to earth, he was unimpressed. When Cassini arrived at Saturn all he could say about the 7 year journey it made to get there was that it was a joke because it was unmanned. Whenever he hears anything about man going back to the moon he goes into a rant about it being a waste of time.

It just makes me sad that he does not see the value in robotic missions but it got me thinking. I asked him if he would willingly spend years of his life on a space craft in the interests of sending manned missions on a grand tour of the solar system. He claimed he would happily do it. But would anyone really?

Even if it was financially possible, travel in space especially to the outer planets would at this point in time take huge chunks of time to get there and back with no guaruntee you would live. Even if there wasn't the ethical consideration of sending someone on a mission to somewhere like Pluto, would there be anyone willing to do it? At this point in time I don't think anyone would. Maybe when space travel is faster but maybe I am wrong and there are people who would risk their lives on a mission to Pluto.

I've been Mormon my whole life and I must say I never heard any of that.

I always sorta figured Kolob was more a figurative place than a literal one. Well that's what I always figured anyway.

They apparently keep the crazy space travel beliefs of the early Mormons out of church these days but still I laughed when reading that second link.

I hate to disappoint people but most of that stuff is no longer taught in the church and whether it was truly official Mormon doctrine at one time I really don't know.

Only a few things on there are legitamately true and official Mormon doctrine to the best of my knowledge. However Mormons truly do believe there are other earth-like planets inhabited by humans. As for the other stuff about space aliens impregnanting women well I never heard that.

I personally don't believe that Kolob is a real physical place that a space craft could go to and I have never heard it preached that way. But I think that site was meant to be funny and not true.

I'm number 383363.

I guess for me just the idea that my name is up in space is enough. I work with preschoolers and toddlers. I'll never be part of the space program but knowing that a little piece of me is up there orbiting Saturn and will be orbiting Pluto in 10 years is enough even if it's just my name and no ET ever finds or makes sense of it.