[MIham] Your Own Historic Lunar Immortality

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi All,

Below is something that I hope many of you elect to sign up for and enjoy 
your fifteen milliseconds of cosmic fame!

RELEASE: 08-110

SEND YOUR NAME TO THE MOON WITH NEW LUNAR MISSION

WASHINGTON -- NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar

exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the

moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft.

The Send Your Name to the Moon Web site enables everyone to

participate in the lunar adventure and place their names in orbit

around the moon for years to come. Participants can submit their

information at http://www.nasa.gov/lro, print a certificate and have

their name entered into a database. The database will be placed on a

microchip that will be integrated onto the spacecraft. The deadline

for submitting names is June 27, 2008.

"Everyone who sends their name to the moon, like I'm doing, becomes

part of the next wave of lunar explorers," said Cathy Peddie, deputy

project manager for LRO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in

Greenbelt, Md. "The LRO mission is the first step in NASA's plans to

return humans to the moon by 2020, and your name can reach there

first. How cool is that?"

The orbiter, comprised of six instruments and one technology

demonstration, will provide the most comprehensive data set ever

returned from the moon. The mission will focus on the selection of

safe landing sites and identification of lunar resources. It also

will study how the lunar radiation environment could affect humans.

LRO will also create a comprehensive atlas of the moon's features and

resources that will be needed as NASA designs and builds a planned

lunar outpost. The mission will support future human exploration

while providing a foundation for upcoming science missions. LRO is

scheduled for launch in late 2008.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is being built at Goddard. The

mission also will be managed at the center for NASA's Explorations

Systems Mission Directorate in Washington.

Send Your Name to the Moon is a collaborative effort among NASA, the

Planetary Society in Pasadena, Calif., and the Johns Hopkins Applied

Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.

To send your name to the moon, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/lro



Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
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