Send Your Name to Mars on NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Mission

Send Your Name to Mars

Send Your Name to Mars - Get your own boarding pass to fly your name to the Red Planet with NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission! 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. Click this link and create your boarding pass today to send your name off to Mars! Deadline is September 30, 2019 (11:59 p.m. ET). What does submitting my name do? All submitted names are reviewed, approved and then etched onto a microchip. The microchip is placed aboard the spacecraft, which will land on Mars.