As old as Voyager
Jun 20 2008, 08:07 PM
I'm trying to compile a list of all the spacecraft onto which the public were able to place their name via some digital format.
Here's what I've got so far (Please let me know if any are incorrect)
Deep Impact
New Horizons
Phoenix
LRO
Kepler
Cassini
MERs
SELENE
Are there any more I've missed?
elakdawalla
Jun 20 2008, 08:22 PM
Here's all the ones that Society member names have flown on:
Pathfinder (on MAPEx experiment chip)
Stardust (in return capsule and separately on spacecraft on microlithograph)
Hayabusa (on foil on target marker left on asteroid)
MERs (on DVDs on landers)
Deep Impact (on CD inside impactor, so they are now vaporized)
New Horizons (on CD)
Phoenix (on DVD on deck)
Kaguya / SELENE
LRO (name collection closes on June 27 -- sign up fast!)
And, for the ones that wound up on the bottom of the ocean:
Mars 96 (on MAPEx experiment chip)
Cosmos 1 (on CD)
--Emily
As old as Voyager
Jun 20 2008, 08:56 PM
Needless full quote removed - JamesThank Emily! That's great!
It's a great way to send something of yourself into space and also gives you a slight feeling of immortality.
dvandorn
Jun 20 2008, 09:06 PM
ISTR my name being on MPL, as well. Wherever it ended up.
-the other Doug
01101001
Jun 21 2008, 01:47 PM
I think these were missed:
Dawn, a chip.
Huygens, a CD, separate from the CD Cassini carried.
Possibly, something on Beagle II.
My own list of what I knew made for another forum:
Cassini
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/96/cdsign.htmlDawn
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/feature_stories/s...mes_install.aspDeep Impact
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/sendyourname/index.html (not maintained)
Kepler
http://www.seti.org/kepler/names/LRO Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/index.phpMars Polar Lander (failed)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/98/m98integ.htmlMER Mars Exploration Rover (Spirit and Opportunity)
http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2003/namequery.htmNew Horizons
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ecard/certificate/searchName.phpPhoenix
http://planetary.org/special/fromearth/phoenixSELENE (Kaguya)
http://www.jaxa.jp/pr/event/selene/index_e.htmlStardust
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/I think the Huygens probe had a CD, separate from Cassini's CD. UMSF:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/lofiver...x.php/t263.htmlThe cancelled 2001 Mars Lander did (and the names were transferred to the MER mission).
More about messages:
Wall Street Journal: Message in a BottleA Portrait of Humanity (PDF) describes the cancelled Huygens diamond disk and offers thoughts about messages to spacecraft discoverers, by Jon Lomberg, who designed the Voyager record.
Beagle II carried something, I think. Anyone recall?
infocat13
Jun 21 2008, 08:25 PM
I think in future we should place these types of markers that reflect our humanity onboard any spent stage that might find it self in a solar or solar system escape orbits
Thu
Jun 21 2008, 10:56 PM
Thanks, now I have Kepler added to my list
Putting names on a spacecraft and send them to space is a great idea.