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Title: Send your name into space
Post by: blobrana on June 13, 2005, 05:10:51 PM

Send your name on the New Horizons spacecraft (http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=58381&subForumID=150688&action=viewTopic&commentID=2902686)!

Names entered on the mission Web site will be recorded onto a special compact disc, which will be mounted on the spacecraft before its journey.

After signing up you can print a personalized participation certificate.

Click here for the sign-up form: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ecard/sendName_ecard_content.html (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ecard/sendName_ecard_content.html)

The  New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission is scheduled to launch in January 2006, swing past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February 2007, and reach Pluto and its moon, Charon, in July 2015.
Then the spacecraft would head deeper into the Kuiper Belt to study one or more of the icy mini-worlds in that vast region, at least a billion miles beyond Neptune's orbit.  

Title: Re: Send your name into space
Post by: Karlos on June 13, 2005, 05:27:36 PM

Hmm, I can just see the next civilization along the galactic arm when our various probes get there...

"Anything good in the post dear?"

"Let's see. Bill, bill, bill, woo a flyer for a stage one outpost auction, bill. Damn!"

"What?"

"More bloody spam from Earth."

Title: Re: Send your name into space
Post by: Vincent on June 13, 2005, 06:14:01 PM

:lol:

Title: Re: Send your name into space
Post by: blobrana on June 13, 2005, 06:46:21 PM

Hum,
A dinner invite?