Tuesday, May 13, 2008

The DC Madam's name has already been submitted

Send Your Name to the Moon

It may be an obvious attempt by aliens to harvest human names for future experimentation. NASA invites you to send your name to the moon. Your name will be included in a database contained on a microchip and placed aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. You also get a certificate suitable for framing or forwarding. The names will fly in a polar orbit for a mission of one to five Earth years at an altitude of 50 kilometers after which they will presumably crash somewhere on the moon (for easy retrieval by the aliens). The LRO will create a
comprehensive 3-D sub-meter resolution atlas of the moon for the design of NASA's planned lunar outpost and will also search for polar volatiles like water ice and hydrogen. Curiously, there's no mention of fusion fuel Helium-3 or the Space Nazis seen in Iron Sky.

NASA - Send Your Name to the Moon With New Lunar Mission

NASA - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Helium-3

Iron Sky trailer