By Laura Forsyth For Mailonline

Published: 09:30 BST, 15 June 2018 | Updated: 11:14 BST, 15 June 2018

Professor Stephen Hawking’s voice will be beamed into space as his ashes are interred at Westminster Abbey today.

The broadcast is set to take place following a service that will feature readings and addresses from Benedict Cumberbatch, who played the physicist in a BBC drama, and astronaut Tim Peake, among others.  

One thousand members of the public, from more than 100 countries, have been offered the opportunity to attend the thanksgiving service, after a ballot attracted 25,000 applications for tickets.  

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