07-26-2008, 10:55 PM
NASA have a programme called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and, along with all the tech, they are taking a chip up with names (entered at the following site) to the moon:
http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/index.php
Originally the deadline to enter your name was June 27 - however (luckily for me) this was extended to 25 July and I see the site has now been updated with a deadline of 31 July.
From my reading, I haven't found anything that would preclude entering a child care facility's name in the two edit boxes. At the end, a nice certificate PDF is created (make sure you save it though...). Cool stuff for the ... cough... kids.
I know my oldest daughter is, well, over the moon about it
and as this mission isn't associated with a manned launch , I've felt confident in encouraging her to think big about it without concerns that I'd have of breaking her little heart if something truly horrible happened like Christa McAuliffe/Challenger.
An article on the NASA mission pages give more details (though with the original date):
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/ne...moon2.html
Finally, http://www.planetary.org/special/messages has an option to subscribe for emails about future opportunities like this.
dino
http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/index.php
Originally the deadline to enter your name was June 27 - however (luckily for me) this was extended to 25 July and I see the site has now been updated with a deadline of 31 July.
From my reading, I haven't found anything that would preclude entering a child care facility's name in the two edit boxes. At the end, a nice certificate PDF is created (make sure you save it though...). Cool stuff for the ... cough... kids.
I know my oldest daughter is, well, over the moon about it
and as this mission isn't associated with a manned launch , I've felt confident in encouraging her to think big about it without concerns that I'd have of breaking her little heart if something truly horrible happened like Christa McAuliffe/Challenger.An article on the NASA mission pages give more details (though with the original date):
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/ne...moon2.html
Finally, http://www.planetary.org/special/messages has an option to subscribe for emails about future opportunities like this.
dino