Have some Fun and send your name to the Moon : - )
Deadline is March 15th 2024
NASA VIPER Mission
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/viper/
Add your name here to have it fly aboard VIPER.
https://www3.nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-viper/
NASA's Artemis lunar rover, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, will explore the relatively nearby but extreme environment of the Moon in search of ice and other potential resources.
This mobile robot will land at the South Pole of the Moon in late 2024 on a 100-day mission. The critical information it provides will teach us about the origin and distribution of water on the Moon and help determine how we can harvest the Moon's resources for future human space exploration.
NASA is inviting people to send their names to the surface of the Moon aboard the agency’s first robotic lunar rover, VIPER. NASA will accept names received before 11:59 p.m. EST, March 15, 2024. Once collected, the agency will take the names and attach them to the rover.
VIPER will be NASA's first robotic Moon rover. It will embark on a mission to the lunar South Pole region to trek into permanently shadowed areas and unravel the mysteries of the Moon’s water.
VIPER is planned for delivery to the lunar surface in late 2024 under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. During its 100-day mission VIPER will travel several miles, over crater rims and occasionally into permanently shadowed craters – which are one of the coldest places in our solar system – to sample different kinds of lunar soils and environments.
VIPER represents the first resource mapping mission on another celestial body and will deepen our understanding of how frozen water and other volatiles are distributed on the Moon, their cosmic origin, and what has kept them preserved in the lunar soil for billions of years.