Send your name to the Astroid Belt

www.dawn-mission.org/DawnCommunity/Sendn...teroid/nameEntry.asp


dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/

Here is a opportunity to send your name on a spacecraft robot explorer to the asteroid belt.

There is only a few days left to join in.

Deirdre Kelleghan
Irish Astronomical Society
www.irishastrosoc.org

thanks deirdre
i put my two babys names down

Thanks Dee. Have mine (and one of my god-daughter's) gone into space! Yipee!

John

www.dawn-mission.org/DawnCommunity/Sendn...teroid/nameEntry.asp
dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/
Here is a opportunity to send your name on a spacecraft robot explorer to the asteroid belt.
There is only a few days left to join in.

Thanks Deirdre. I'm already on the way to Pluto so it looks like I'm going to the asteroids as well. It's a bit strange though that you have to print the asteroid mission certificate immediately. The Pluto mission database of names is available online so you can print your certificate at any time. I wonder why NASA has changed this for the asteroid mission. Anyway, I saved mine as an Acrobat file just in case I misplace the original.

Yes a different way of doing the certs, I copied and pasted mine into word landscape as a way of keeping a copy. I am off to Pluto on New Horizons, I am already on Mars on Spirit and Opportunity and now the Astroid Belt. I missed out on Cassini as in 1997 I had three small children and not much time for space exploration.


In 1995 NASA organised a special digitised disc and over 600,000 signatures were collected from people in 81 countries. The signatures of Jean-Dominique Cassini and Christiaan Huygens were also scanned in from ancient manuscripts and are very appropriately included on the disc. This cooperative campaign to collect signatures lasted more than a year, and in May 1997 five months before the launch of the Cassini-Huygens mission, 10 copies of the DVD were digitally mastered. One copy is on display at JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility, eight copies are in museums across the world and “the” one on board is a billion miles from home in Orbit around Saturn.


Deirdre Kelleghan
Irish Astronomical Society
www.irishastrosoc.org

That's great! I've just sent my two foster children, several of my nieces & nephews and even my parents into space :lol: