Your Name Into Space!
Dear friends and fans of Mars Gravity (my research project) -It's been an exciting week for the team! - culminating in a front page
article in today's Boston Globe, which you can check out online at:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/11/03/prime_ad_space_in_space.
So what's all the excitement about??
In a novel bid to pay our own way into space, we are now inviting
people around the world to make our spacecraft their high tech canvas.
This week we launched a new website - YourNameIntoSpace.org - where
individuals and organizations can decorate the satellite and our
website with logos, photos, names, and messages. For a tax-deductible
donation as low as $35, anyone can send their message into orbit! For
a larger donation, you can reserve space on the reentry vehicle, and
at the end of the mission the space hardware bearing your actual logo,
photo, message, etc will be returned to you. At YourNameIntoSpace.org,
kids of all ages can also add their names for free to a DVD that will
fly onboard the spacecraft.
We're thrilled to be able to share the excitement of space exploration
with everyone! With this website, we're opening a new frontier for
public and corporate participation in cutting edge research and space
adventure - and making it possible for everyone from students to
multinational corporations to be involved in our landmark mission.
YourNameIntoSpace.org uses the global reach and immediacy of New Media
and Web 2.0 to make that star-filled frontier just one mouse-click
away. So please, join us in making this satellite a high tech canvas
for photos, artwork, declarations of love, well-wishes, greetings from
space, names - use your imagination!
-The Mars Gravity team at
www.YourNameIntoSpace.org
posted by Biff @ 8:17 PM
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