Send Your Name To The Asteroid Belt!
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is sending an unmanned spacecraft — the ion-propelled Dawn — to the asteroid belt, and is giving you — yes you — the chance to send your name along for the ride.
Send your name to the asteroid belt on the Dawn spacecraft. Your name will be recorded onto a microchip that will be placed aboard the spacecraft accompanying it on its mission to the asteroid belt.
Just click this link and enter your name to include it on the chip. After you click submit you’ll be presented with a certificate page, suitable for framing, once you print it out, that is. This might be just the thing for that nerdy nephew that you need to buy a Christmas gift for.
The mission’s goal is to check out two of the larger asteroids in the belt — Ceres and Vesta — and see if they yield any answers as to the origin of the universe; hence the name “Dawn”.
No mention of what is to become of Dawn at the end of the mission in 2016. They’ll probably ram it into another heavenly body to see what happens. Then get sued for it.
