Science Yes You Can Go to Mars and Still Be Alive...Sorta?

[DoTell]

You Can Send Your Name to Mars Aboard NASA's InSight Lander

Your name could land on Mars a year from now aboard NASA's next Red Planet mission.

The space agency is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a silicon chip that will be affixed to the InSight Mars lander, which is scheduled to blast off in February 2016 and touch down on the Red Planet seven months later.

"Our next step in the journey to Mars is another fantastic mission to the surface," Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a statement. "By participating in this opportunity to send your name aboard InSight to the Red Planet, you're showing that you're part of that journey and the future of space exploration."

You can fill out your "Mars boarding pass" through Sept. 8 here:http://go.usa.gov/3Aj3G


http://www.space.com/30317-send-your-name-to-mars-insight-lander.html​

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Now that is an amazing hobby... collecting solar system uh... orbital points! XD

Or, "THEY" will find my name and come looking for me.

 

[DoTell]

OTR (1955) written by Robert Heinlein "Mars is Heaven" bwahahahahah

 

[7Critter]

I don't know, it sounds like NAME DROPPING to me. " Yeah, yeah, I got my name on Mars. Just a select few of us." Ha !
I do like the idea. Perhaps it would get more children interested in science and space.

 

[t-dub]

I had my name encoded with about 400,000 other people on the New Horizons probe that just flew past Pluto.

 

[t-dub]

ok, I signed up to be on the chip. The name has been changed to protect the innocent . . .