You Can Send Your Name to Mars Aboard NASA's InSight Lander
Your name could land on Mars a year from now aboard NASA's next Red Planet mission. The space agency is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a silicon chip that will be affixed to the InSight Mars lander, which is scheduled to blast off in February 2016 and touch down on the Red Planet seven months later. "Our next step in the journey to Mars is another fantastic mission to the surface," Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA Headquarters in Washington
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