NASA is ready to launch your name into space for the next lunar mission – Edition du soir Ouest-France

If you ever dreamed of being an astronaut, NASA might have something for you. So, no, she will not hire you for her next assignment. But she’s kind enough to offer to take your first and last name into space, around the moon, with her Orion spaceship. Take off in July, take your boarding pass!

Do you dream of rubbing your shoulders with the stars? NASA launched an initiative you may like! Well, it’s not you personally who will take off for space, just your first and last name, written in a mini USB key. It will fly to the moon next July aboard the Orion spacecraft.

Well, you can imagine that NASA wouldn’t send a machine out of Earth’s atmosphere just to fly a USB key filled with names of unknown people into the void of space! Orion is actually the first stage of the Artemis mission, which aims to send humans to the moon again around 2025.

More than 2 million requests

Obviously, to NASA, it’s not just one more onboard USB key that will make a difference to this massive project, for which the US Congress has appropriated more than $1 billion in 2022. But if this kind of initiative can satisfy enthusiasts — and make The US space program is better known – so much better!

NASA also regularly offers virtual boarding passes to the general public for its future missions… Anyway, since March 2, NASA has received over 2 million requests for the Artemis mission! So why not?

To share, it’s very easy. You just need to go to Artemis mission site. There, all you have to do is enter your name, first name, and personal code. NASA will then create a “boarding pass,” and it will appear in the famous USB key. We even sent you West of France in orbit. Here’s a picture of your boarding pass ready for its flight!