NASA publicity stunt - send your name to Mars on the InSight mission

[micha]

FYI, if you're not aware of it already, bit of fun:

http://insight.jpl.nasa.gov/newsdisplay.cfm?Subsite_News_ID=38315

[NovaSilisko]

I'd hardly call it a publicity stunt, it's just a bit of goodwill to let people feel they're participating. I stuck mine on it.

[Endersmens]

Put my name on it, love the concept. Makes me feel more spacey.

[justidutch]

Just added my name also. I wonder if I can trade these in for Airmiles?

[Woksaus]

Just added my name also. I wonder if I can trade these in for Airmiles?

If that's so, I wonder what the conversion rate it, considering I got 297,805,305 points from this mission alone

[Starwhip]

Ah, cool!

I'll have my name on it, then. I already have my name on the Stardust probe.

[Sampa]

Should i? Do i really want an alien race to find out about me?

[JedTech]

Already on it

[Endersmens]

Should i? Do i really want an alien race to find out about me?

Trust me, first + last name wouldn't give you up. Maybe if you put your full name.

[pincushionman]

I'd hardly call it a publicity stunt, it's just a bit of goodwill to let people feel they're participating. I stuck mine on it.

Is there a difference? Now, I say that firmly believing that "publicity stunt" /= bad. It's only bad if that's the only thing going on, or if it's obviously unrelated to what we're supposed to get interested in. The mission is the real deal; this part is to create interest (which is exactly what a publicity stunt is).

Edited August 20, 2015 by pincushionman

[micha]

I wasn't meaning to sound negative with that headline, perhaps the words have different connotations in different cultures. I'm all for publicising our efforts in space exploration, raising awareness. Otherwise I wouldn't have passed it on!

[Cirocco]

My name is already up there

Back in like 2007-2008, NASA sent the Phoenix lander to mars which had a DVD on it with, among others, a quarter million names which were submitted to the Planetary Society. My dad submitted my name, as well as my brother's. He also printed out the "certificate" the site then gave you. Damn that thing hung up on my bedroom wall for a long time

I'm totally going to submit again though, this is probably the closest I'm ever going to get to interplanetary spacetravel.

[Godot]

My name is going to Mars as well.

It a well traveled name which, from 1999 to 2006 already travelled on Stardust to the Comet Wild 2 and back to earth

Edited August 20, 2015 by Godot

[windows_x_seven]

Submitted.

Aliens, I'm waiting you.

Edited August 21, 2015 by windows_x_seven

[Goddess Bhavani]

There can be only one choice for a one way exploration mission. Here is his boarding pass:

[windows_x_seven]

There can be only one choice for a one way exploration mission. Here is his boarding pass:

http://i.imgur.com/QUO4xol.jpg

Already did that.

Sent the names of Jeb, Bob, Bill and Val.

[Nibb31]

There must be a few hundred Jebediah Kermans on that DVD.

Hilarious.

[Goddess Bhavani]

I wonder if NASA would audit the names - I bet there's already a lot of inappropriate stuff or "people that never were" on there, heroes and villians and all on the same disk

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Done!

[Sampa]

I caved....