Trying to get your name out there? Here鈥檚 a way to get it all the way to Jupiter.
NASA is going to the fifth planet, about 1.8 billion miles into space, to explore the moon Europa.
The spacecraft will include a “message in a bottle.”
The message is a written by Poet Laureate Ada Lim贸n.
You can and it will be engraved on a microchip that鈥檚 going along on the mission as well.
鈥淎nybody everyone everywhere, is invited to send their name into space,” Laurance Fauconnet, public engagement lead at NASA鈥檚 Jet propulsion Laboratory, said.
NASA’s hope is to spark people鈥檚 imagination: “To think about what it means when we鈥檙e exploring these distant worlds.”
Fauconnet said this is the first time people have had the opportunity to send their name to Jupiter, but it鈥檚 not the first time the agency has sent names into space.
They’ve 鈥渃arried names around the moon, we鈥檝e sent names to Mars, we鈥檝e sent names to Saturn.”
The mission doesn’t start until October 2024, but if you want your name included, you have to sign up by the end of this year.
“There鈥檚 no limit to how many names can be submitted,” Fauconnet said.
The space craft, the message and the names are scheduled to arrive on Jupiter in 2030.
