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Send Your Name to the Moon on LRO is no longer collecting names.
The deadline has passed for sending your name to the Moon!

Don't miss the next opportunity -- sign up for email notices!

If you submitted a name to fly on the Phoenix Mars lander or the Kaguya (SELENE) orbiter, you can still download your certificates.
Fly Your Name to Mars on Phoenix >>

Wish Upon the Moon with SELENE >>


When the next lander touches down on the surface of Mars, when the next sample return mission sends its precious cargo back to Earth, when the next spacecraft enters orbit around a giant planet, you could be there too! The Planetary Society is committed to bringing you on board each and every mission launched into space from Earth.

Thousands of people, from all over the world, participated in our most recent Messages from Earth on the Phoenix mission to Mars, with the SELENE mission to the Moon, and with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. If you sent a message prior to the deadline you can still download your Official Participation Certificate -- one for each mission.

These certificates will be permanent record of your part in the story of space exploration.

The Planetary Society has done it before. When the Mars Pathfinder and its rover Sojourner landed on Mars in 1997, the names of all Planetary Society members were affixed to the spacecraft. When the Stardust sample return capsule landed back on Earth, the names of all Society members also returned from a journey of seven billion miles in space, while another copy of the same names is forever orbiting the Sun on board the Stardust spacecraft. Spirit and Opportunity both landed on Mars along with the names of Society members, and another list went out in a blaze of glory as Deep Impact slammed into the core of comet Tempel 1. We will take every opportunity to do it again.

Don't give up on this opportunity to leave your own indelible mark on the great adventure that is space exploration! By joining The Planetary Society, you ensure that when the next space mission soars into the heavens carrying the names of supporters from around the world, your name will be there too.