Copping to another job

Astronaut Scott Kelly once considered NYPD

the Scott InternationalKelly, who Space spent Station,a year revealedin space aboardthat he has completed about 25 percent of his memoir, “My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars,” for the Alfred A. Knopf imprint of Penguin Random House.

But he admitted to our Keith J. Kelly he once thought of pursuing a career on the NYPD instead of an astronaut.

His father, Richard, and his late mother, Patricia, both worked n law enforcement as New Jersey state troopers.

Scott told assembled Kelly Gang members at Michael’s restaurant recently that in their freshman year at Mountain High School in West Orange, NJ, he and his twin brother, Mark, were warned by their dad that if their grades did not improve, they should begin to consider a well-paying trade.

“He suggested we become welders,” recalled Scott to the “Gang,” which included former top cop Ray Kelly, CPA Kevin Kelly and ad executive Colleen Kelly.

Up until then, Scott said he figured he might want to join the NYPD. “So I might have ended up working for you,” he said, turning to Ray Kelly.

Scott credits picking up a copy of Tom Wolfe’s “The Right Stuff,” about the pilots picked to be the first Mercury astronauts, near the end of his high school years for changing his mind and putting him on the right course.

“I didn’t think I’d be an astronaut, but it gave me the idea of becoming a pilot,” he said.

To the moon

Speaking of space, last week Moon Express said on becoming the first private company to receive US approval to land on the moon that its plans for commercial cargo included human remains.

The Cape Canaveral, Fla., company wouldn’ t put a price on its moon-as-mausoleum service, which it plans to offer with its maiden flight next year.

But in a follow-up interview with The Post’s Richard Morgan, Moon Express cofounder Naveen Jain said the delivery of one’s ashes for lunar interment would be based on a “payload” price of $3 million perer kilo.

Since the cremated remains of adults generally weigh between 4 and 6 pounds, the indicated price range is $5.4 million to $8.1 million.

Better hurry, though, if you want to be first. “We already have a long list,” Jain said.

Stock shopping ng

The stock market is coming to your local grocery store — and it’s not charging wholesale prices. Stockpile,e, which sells stock through gift cards, is going to roll out in about 14,000 stores by the end of the year — bucking the race to the bottom in brokerage fees by charging as much as 20 percent in fees. Stockpile is a full-service brokerage with a twist — it sells fractional shares of some of the biggest and most well-known companies in the world, like Apple, Facebook and Alphabet, the parent company of Google. While most brokers operate purely online or through phone orders, Stockpile sells these pieces of shares on gift card racks, alongside ones for Starbucks, TGI Fridays and Subway. Customers buy a card at a certain fixed price, then enter a code online in a brokerage account, and voila — they’re shareholders.

Stockpile Chief Commercial Officer Dan Schatt says that gift cards are an easy market entry for kids and others intimidated by the high prices of some of thethe wworld’s hottest stocks. But its feefees are higher than the average brokerker —— and ccustomers won’t even get a whole share. For instainstance, if customers buy a $29.95 gift card forfor AlAlphabet’s stock, they would only be investing $25, and the rest would be in fees.

Bloody mess

DDisgraced Theranos founder and CECEO Elizabeth Holmes (pictured) hhas quietly resigned from President dO ba ma’ s Presidential Ambb assad or sf or Global Entreprenn eur ship advisory board. The one-time high-flying Silicon Valley exec has seen plenty of bloodletting of late. Holmes was accused last week at a sscientific meeting of “baiting and switchswitching” on a presentation. The conferencference was expecting to hear about the sciencscience behind the micro-blood test service;vice; iinstead they got a demo on a prototyptotype device to test cholesterol, white blooblood cell counts and the Zika virus, attendtendees complained.

WhereW the heart is

DivoDivorced men may love their newfoundfound freedom, but they still need a woman’woman’s touch at home — and not in the way you may think. A new business is targeting divorced men who need help turning their bachelor pads into homes. A typical job would cost $5,000 uup front — the fee is based “on the scope ofo the project” — and then the company,pany, SSimplyHome2, receives a 20 percentcent cocommission on all goods it buys and contraccontractors it employs on behalf of its clients. The New York company was founded by TanhyaT Schimel and Patty Frischman.Frisch The men are known as “projeprojects” in the business. “We turn their housesh into homes,” Schimel said.