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posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 21 2015, @04:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the better-than-sending-your-body dept.

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 now 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 is not the first time NASA has offered such a service. Last December, 1.38 million names flew on a chip aboard an unmanned test flight for the Orion spacecraft, which will carry astronauts into deep space on Orion Exploration Mission-1 that is expected to launch no later than 2018. Participants are given "frequent flier" points that provide them with alerts of future missions and a "boarding pass" in appreciation of their support of NASA.

It's not clear if submitting your name will guarantee its place on the chip, but you can submit it here.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @07:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @07:30PM (#225989)

    You jest in hostility, but many other animals do it too. Bears, ungulates, and even insects all make their mark in their own way. Ours just so happens to be easy for us to spot. Shocking.