FRANCE: Even if you don’t get a chance to travel to Mars, but at least our names can go. NASA is giving Mars enthusiasts the opportunity to get their names to the red planet.
Enthusiasts can fill up a simple form and their names would be added to a silicon microchip headed to Mars aboard NASA’s InSight Mars lander, scheduled to launch next year.
It’s scheduled to launch in March of next year and arrive in September of 2016.
The sign-up also comes with frequent flier points—just so you can keep track of your participation. Users can collect points by flying their names with future NASA missions.
This isn’t the first time a NASA mission has flown names to space. The New Horizons spacecraft, which recently flew by Pluto but launched to space in 2006, carried more than 430,000 names with it on its close approach to the dwarf planet.
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