This sounds like fun: If you send your name to NASA by November 4, they’ll record it on a microchip and launch it on board a spacecraft bound for the Asteroid Belt. Purely symbolic, of course, but not bad as symbolism goes.<\/p>\n
Here’s the site:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.dawn-mission.org\/DawnCommunity\/Sendname2asteroid\/nameEntry.asp<\/p>\n
Added 1 November:<\/b> Meanwhile, the Planetary Society is offering a similar chance to fly your name to Mars:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/planetary.org\/home\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This sounds like fun: If you send your name to NASA by November 4, they’ll record it on a microchip and launch it on board a spacecraft bound for the Asteroid Belt. Purely symbolic, of course, but not bad as symbolism goes. Here’s the site: http:\/\/www.dawn-mission.org\/DawnCommunity\/Sendname2asteroid\/nameEntry.asp Added 1 November: Meanwhile, the Planetary Society is offering … Continue reading “Send Your Name to the Asteroid Belt and Mars<\/b>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}