Get Shot Into Space

September 18th, 2008

NASA’s Kepler Mission is set to go in Spring 2009, and they are going to let your thoughts hop on board when Kepler spacecraft is launched into space. If you go to the Your Name in Space website you can fill out a short form and have your thoughts on the mission burned to a DVD that will go into space with the craft.

The Kepler Mission is the first mission capable of detecting Earth-size and smaller planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. This mission is hoping to get some idea just how rare Earth is. Are we the only one? This age-old question has been in textbooks for decades, and may never be answered, but the Kepler mission is certainly going to try and find similar planets that are in the same circumstances as ours.

The names and statements of all participants will be burned onto a DVD, and launched into space on board the Kepler spacecraft next spring. The information will also be provided to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum as a historical document of public opinion about the mission and space exploration.

There’s a deadline to get in is November 1, 2008.