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Your Name in Space

  • April 5, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Want to put your name in space? NASA plans to etch people’s names on a microchip that its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will carry to the asteroid Bennu in 2016. The probe will take a sample of the asteroid’s surface and return it to Earth. Sign up at http://planetary.org/bennu by September 30.

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