![[Freebie] Send your name to Mars for free on NASA's next flight to the Red Planet 4](https://www.talkandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PIA23769-847x635.jpg)
Whilst Elon Musk fiddles with blue checkmarks on his new toy, the world waits for news on when the first manned flights to Mars will occur and perhaps most importantly, when we can start leaving Twitter Earth. Physically traveling to the Red Planet isn't technologically possible just yet but you can send your name to Mars free of charge via NASA's “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign.
Once you've provided your name, zip code, and email on the website linked below you'll receive a boarding pass to print out (and frame) with updates sent to your email with videos and photos showing the progress of the mission. As mentioned, it's entirely free and a neat little gift for any youngster (or adult) interested in space.
“A placard commemorating NASA's “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign was installed on the Perseverance Mars rover on March 16, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three fingernail-sized chips affixed to the upper-left corner of the placard feature the names of 10,932,295 people who participated. They were individually stenciled onto the chips by electron beam, along with the essays of the 155 finalists in NASA's “Name the Rover” contest. Liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket is targeted for mid-July of 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. NASA's Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy, is managing the launch”
Look, we know that it's not quite the visit to Mars that the people in the 1960s promised would happen by the year 2020 but a freebie is a freebie and just think about how glad the Martians will be to learn your name ahead of their full-scale invasion visit to earth.
