>> Send your name to Pluto
Next year NASA is launching it’s first ever mission to Pluto – the ninth planet, and you can be on board (in name at least). Between now and September 15th, any web user can add their name to a CD-ROM which will be on board the space-craft, and print out a personalised certificate proving their involvement in the mission. This is the third time that NASA has opened its virtual doors and allowed the likes of us to send our names into space. Similar missions to Mars and the comet Tempel 1 have been hugely popular attracting over 3.5 million registrations.
We will be teenagers when this mission lands on Pluto and it will give us something to look forward too and know we were involved in it.
Posted by: Jack and Felix Chisholm | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 at 08:10 PM
Great idea sending personal names to Pluto, unfortunately I am now sporting a balck eye as my wife thought I was volunteering her personally for the mission! Still, she got the certificate.
Posted by: Greg Boyle | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 at 10:12 PM
I will reach the milestone this year of being 50 years old. Time I was launched into space, through infinity and beyond. Good luck and best wishes. Pat
Posted by: Pat Smith | Wednesday, September 07, 2005 at 11:30 PM