Your own one way ticket to Mars! NASA gives members of the public a boarding pass with their name on it as it takes a list of people to the Red Planet on its 2020 rover
- NASA will use an electron beam to stencil the submitted names onto silicon chip
- The lines of text will be smaller than one-thousandth the width of a human hair
- At that size, more than a million names can be written on a single dime-size chip
Human beings are yet to land on Mars but they'll soon to leave their mark on it after NASA offered the public an opportunity to send their names to the Red Planet.
Names will be delivered, stencilled on chips, via NASA's Mars 2020 rover and people will receive their own souvenir boarding pass and 'frequent flyer' points.
The rover, a robotic scientist weighing more than 2,300 pounds (1,000 kilograms), is scheduled to launch as early as July 2020 and land on Mars in February 2021.
It will search for signs of past microbial life, characterise the planet's climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth, and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.
Exploration: NASA's Mars 2020 rover will search for signs of past microbial life, characterise the planet's climate/geology and collect samples for future return to Earth
The gimmick is part of a public engagement campaign to highlight missions involved with NASA's journey from the Moon to Mars.
The Microdevices Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, will use an electron beam to stencil the submitted names onto a silicon chip with lines of text smaller than one-thousandth the width of a human hair.
At that size, more than a million names can be written on a single dime-size chip. The chips will ride on the rover under a glass cover.
The opportunity for people to send their name to Mars comes with a souvenir boarding pass and 'frequent flyer' points.
Miles are awarded for each 'flight', with corresponding digital mission patches available for download.
More than 2 million names flew on NASA's InSight mission to Mars, giving each so-called astronaut about 300 million frequent flyer miles.
Send yourself to space? The opportunity for people to send their name to Mars comes with a souvenir boarding pass and 'frequent flyer' points
'As we get ready to launch this historic Mars mission, we want everyone to share in this journey of exploration,' said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
'It's an exciting time for NASA, as we embark on this voyage to answer profound questions about our neighbouring planet, and even the origins of life itself'.
NASA will use Mars 2020 and other missions to prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. As another step toward that goal, NASA is returning American astronauts to the Moon in 2024.
Government, industry and international partners will join NASA in a global effort to build and test the systems needed for human missions to Mars and beyond.
The Mars 2020 Project at JPL manages rover development for SMD. NASA's Launch Services Program, based at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is responsible for launch management.
Mars 2020 will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
WHAT ARE NASA'S PLANS FOR A MANNED MISSION TO MARS IN THE 2030s?
Mars has become the next giant leap for mankind's exploration of space.
But before humans get to the red planet, astronauts will take a series of small steps by returning to the moon for a year-long mission.
Details of a the mission in lunar orbit have been unveiled as part of a timeline of events leading to missions to Mars in the 2030s.
Nasa has outlined its four stage plan (pictured) which it hopes will one day allow humans to visit Mars at he Humans to Mars Summit held in Washington DC yesterday. This will entail multiple missions to the moon over coming decades
In May 2017, Greg Williams, deputy associate administrator for policy and plans at Nasa, outlined the space agency's four stage plan that it hopes will one day allow humans to visit Mars, as well as its expected time-frame.
Phase one and two will involve multiple trips to lunar space, to allow for construction of a habitat which will provide a staging area for the journey.
The last piece of delivered hardware would be the actual Deep Space Transport vehicle that would later be used to carry a crew to Mars.
And a year-long simulation of life on Mars will be conducted in 2027.
Phase three and and four will begin after 2030 and will involve sustained crew expeditions to the Martian system and surface of Mars.
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