Send your name along with exoplanet hunter

How would you like to have your name on board the craft that discovers the first Earth-sized exoplanet? Now you can. NASA has announced an opportunity for anyone to submit their name to be burned on a DVD that will accompany Kepler, scheduled for a February, 2009 launch.

The Name in Space DVD will be mounted on the exterior of the spacecraft in November 2008.  A video of the DVD being mounted on the spacecraft will be taken and posted on the Kepler mission Web site prior to the spacecraft being shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December of this year. A copy of the DVD with all of the names and messages will be given to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, Washington.

Wayne

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