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ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT for you to fly your name to Mars onboard Phoenix, and one day left to send your name and a message to the Moon on Japan's SELENE spacecraft. Click on the banner at the top of this page to submit a name for Phoenix, and go HERE to submit a name and a brief message to the Moon as part of the "Wish Upon The Moon" campaign sponsored by The Planetary Society (based in Pasadena, California) and The Planetary Society of Japan. February 6 will be the final day to have your name included in a specially-made, silica-glass DVD to be placed on Phoenix.

UPDATE #1 (February 6): The deadline to submit your name on Phoenix has been extended to February 12...at 12:00 noon, Pacific Standard Time.

UPDATE #2 (February 12): The Phoenix opportunity is now closed as of 5 PM, Pacifc time today, but you still have till February 28 to fly your name aboard SELENE.

UPDATE #3: For some odd reason, apostrophes aren't allowed in the Phoenix and SELENE database, so if you have O'Neal, O'Neill, O'Connor, O'Keefe or any other name with an apostrophe in it, you would instead have to type O Neal, ONeal or O-Neal for your submission to go through. I know, I know... That doesn't make sense. Fortunately, I myself don't have to worry about that problem (last names don't get any simpler than 'Par'). Heheh.



NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is scheduled for launch on August 3rd, and will arrive at the Red Planet in May of 2008. Japan’s SELENE probe will launch around July and arrive at the Moon about five days later. Become a member of The Planetary Society if you want to take part in more of these opportunities...since the Society was responsible for sending literally millions of names into space onboard other NASA missions like Cassini (616,420 names), Deep Impact (625,000 names), New Horizons (430,000 names), Stardust (two microchips are carried onboard... One bearing 136,000 names and the other 1 MILLION names) and the Mars Rovers (4 MILLION names on each rover). No, the Society didn’t pay me to type this post. I could use the cash, though.



Below are my participation certificates for Phoenix, SELENE and the Dawn mission...which will launch this June and head for asteroids Vesta and Ceres. The "Send Your Name" campaign for Dawn lasted from March to November 4th of last year. Dawn will carry a microchip bearing the names of 360,000 people. That is all.


Click image above to view the Phoenix certificate.