Want To Send Your Name To Mars? Sign Up Now
Want to go to Mars? Well, you can’t, but your name can reach another planet? Yes NASA is giving you the chance to at least to have your name sent up to the red planet. It’s totally free, you’ll earn NASA “frequent flyer miles,” and your name will be on Mars. Just you have to one thing is Sign up.
Here How to Sign up?
Sign up for free right here. All you need to provide is your name, email, and postal code, and you’ll have an account for future missions as well. NASA has a fun “frequent flyer” tally of miles and badges that some space fans like to collect.
Buying tickets into space has typically been the reserve of governments and billionaires, but if you want to send your name on an interplanetary jaunt NASA might now be able to accommodate you. The space agency is accepting submissions from members of the public who’d like their names recorded on a silicon microchip and shuttled to the Red Planet onboard the InSight Mars lander launching next year. This time, the program will send your name up on a microchip that will be sent up on the Insight space lander, which is scheduled to launch in March 2016 and land on the red planet in September 2016.
NASA Invites Public to Send Your Name to Mars:
This is the second time NASA has opened up this type of opportunity to send our names into space. Last year, the microchipped names of 1.38 million people flew on the Orion spacecraft’s first flight. Now comes the chance to be part of an exciting stage of Mars exploration: your name can accompany InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport), a geophysical lander designed to study deep below the surface of Mars.
How were the chips made?
Engineers etched the names onto a silicon wafer or microchip. They used an electron beam “E-beam” machine at JPL that specializes in etching very tiny features (less than 1 micron, or less than the width of a human hair!). They normally use this machine to make high-precision micro devices in JPL’s Micro devices Laboratory.
Last Date to register:
To Sign up into NASA last day is September 8, 2015 at midnight EDT. Come join me and a whole bunch of other enthusiasts for a journey across space. To stay in touch with the latest on human efforts to explore the Red Planet.