In 2005, NASA had a program that allowed you to enter your name to be placed on a CD-ROM that was to be put on the New Horizons probe to Pluto. I was able to look mine up and still see the certificate.
Nice try, NSA
I’ve done a few of these. It was pretty cool. One of the missions ended up on the bottom of the ocean however.
hey there could be aliens down there too.
You shouldn’t be giving your information to aliens. I don’t even want to imagine who they’d sell your information to now.
“Hi, we are calling about your interstellar transport’s extended warranty.”
Dammit!
I’m not sure if I did it or not, but my name is common enough that it’s in there multiple times…
Yep. NASA did a similar thing for the Perseverance rover except, if I’m remembering correctly, they used some sort of nanotechnology wizardry to etch over 10 million names on computer chips.
