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As old as Voyager
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
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
Needless full quote removed - James

Thank 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.

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dvandorn
ISTR my name being on MPL, as well. Wherever it ended up.

-the other Doug
01101001
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.html
Dawn http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/feature_stories/s...mes_install.asp
Deep 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.php
Mars Polar Lander (failed) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/98/m98integ.html
MER Mars Exploration Rover (Spirit and Opportunity) http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2003/namequery.htm
New Horizons http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ecard/certificate/searchName.php
Phoenix http://planetary.org/special/fromearth/phoenix
SELENE (Kaguya) http://www.jaxa.jp/pr/event/selene/index_e.html
Stardust 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.html

The cancelled 2001 Mars Lander did (and the names were transferred to the MER mission).

More about messages: Wall Street Journal: Message in a Bottle

A 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
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
Thanks, now I have Kepler added to my list smile.gif
Putting names on a spacecraft and send them to space is a great idea.
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