06-22-2008, 12:16 AM | #1 |
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Send Your Name to the Moon
I have always had a fascination about space. I remember watching Alan Sheppard's first sub-orbital flight, I remember watching Ginger Baker ducking behind the curtain between songs on Cream's final US tour in 1969 and then after one of the curtain ducks announcing "You Yanks just landed a man on the moon."
The APL at Johns Hopkins University is collecting names to be stored on a chip that will be part of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO.) The LRO's objectives are to find safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology. Link to LRO project details: http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/ If you sign up your name will be placed on their list and you will receive a numbered certificate of participation. (You print it on your printer.)Link to send your name: http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/index.php The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is built and managed by NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center for NASA. "Send Your Name to the Moon" Project is a partnership with NASA, the LRO Project, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Planetary Society. Hurry the deadline is June 27, 2008. |
06-22-2008, 12:18 AM | #2 |
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06-22-2008, 10:47 AM | #3 |
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I'm off!
See you there! Have forwarded this to a friend who is a space nut.......great link.
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06-27-2008, 09:33 AM | #4 |
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Over 1,600,000 have already joined. Today is the last day.
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06-27-2008, 09:36 AM | #5 |
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The moon? We've been there, done that. C'mon, world, let's have a real space program!
Hey, France! Race ya to Mars? |
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06-27-2008, 09:38 AM | #6 |
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actually, it's a little known fact that the french actually are FROM mars. so, you know, been there, done that.
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06-27-2008, 09:56 AM | #8 |
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Did you bring a shirt? I'd like to exchange a Pluto-pullover (it's not a planet anymore - gosh, you should have seen those collector-prices dropping) against a mars-shirt.
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06-27-2008, 10:01 AM | #10 |
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06-27-2008, 10:09 AM | #11 |
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Save Pluto! Boot Uranus!
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