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2.4 million people’s names booked for the ‘Flight to Mars’

NASA is sending out the Insight Mars probe in 2018, and over 2.4 million people’s names have been booked with a ticket on flight to Mars – just that, only their names embedded in a silicon chip will be sent to the red planet. It is still a cool thing to do, at least we get to send our names on Mars, if not our own selves.

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Landing on lands beyond Earth is everyone’s dream, and the closest we can get to that dream – as of now – is that we can send our names to the planet via NASA’s Insight Mars Rover mission. NASA had opened up an option that allowed people to get their names registered and then sent on Mars with Insight rover which will be launched on 5th May, 2018. This is not the first time that NASA has carried out such a mission. In 2015, nearly 827,000 names were collected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and attached to robotic InSight lander.

So about this time, NASA revealed that of the 2.4 million names, nearly 1,38,889 people from India have registered their names for a ticket to Mars. And, and India is in the third position in terms of the number of registrations made. The first is the US with 6,76,773 names followed by China with 2,62,752 names. India stands at number three with about 1.4 million. Space experts see it as a sign of the excitement and interest in Mars flights among Indians.

The names are being etched on a silicon wafer microchip using an electron beam to form letters with lines one one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair. This chip will then be attached to the top hull of the lander. The names will then stay on Mars forever. Did you miss getting your name ticket for the flight to Mars? Don’t worry because NASA is planning for a number of such missions in future. And for those who has already got the name ticket, well NASA says that it’s journey to Mars to span “multiple missions and multiple decades”, and “frequent flier” points will help the agency identify individual’s participation in this journey.

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