Send Your Name Into Space
Only 4 days left. Get in while the getting’s good!
NASA’s campaign to send the nom de plumes of people from around the world into the heart of the asteroid belt ends Sat., Nov. 4.
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“This campaign will allow people from around the world to become directly involved with Dawn, and through that, become familiar with the mission’s science,” said University of California Los Angeles professor Dr. Chris Russell, Dawn’s principal investigator.
The Dawn mission is managed by JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The University of California Los Angeles is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the Dawn spacecraft. For information about NASA and other space flight missions on the Internet, visit http://www.nasa.gov/ .
Cool stuff! I signed up the whole family and printed the little certificate.