Thanks for the update, Alan! New Horizons enters 'Uranus space' today

Rybo, you can always send your name to Mars...

http://mars9.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/...rname/index.cfm

And here are photos of the microchip as it was being installed onto LRO:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/mult...for_flight.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/mult...lion_names.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/mult...many_names.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/mult...moon_alice.html

I'm just waiting for the day another outer planet flyby mission presents itself for me to submit my name on. I missed the New Horizons opportunity..

I find it interesting that Brazil's in 2nd...

Sigh.

I guess it's difficult to choose from such awesome names as Perception, Journey and Adventure.

The name for MSL should be announced any day now.

Galileo probably should've been named something else... Maybe then, its high-gain antenna would've fully deployed

Being Filipino, I might wanna represent the Philippines, along with California

Curiosity sounds like a good name...since it has 5 syllables like Opportunity. If you're superstitious like I am...

It's still more than 2 years before the rover launches, so there's no deadline for submission yet.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/

Are those photos on the cake edible, too?

Congrats

Glad to see LCROSS and LRO in Florida now. Hopefully, they'll make the April launch...not that being delayed 2 weeks to May 7 is a bummer

Photos of the Names In Space DVD being attached to the Kepler spacecraft:

http://www.ballaerospace.com/gallery/kepler/gallery14.htm

Farewell, Phoenix. We hardly knew ye.

Emily posted an interesting blog on Planetary.org regarding a proposed flyby of Neptune that could be done by 2027 if it launched by 2020. Called Argo, it would be the fourth New Frontiers mission if approved it in the next selection process, which is to take place in 2013.

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001729/


The original proposal page:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/march_08_meet...ions/hammel.pdf

November 1 has come and gone, but you can still submit your name on Kepler:

http://namesinspace.seti.org/

[You can just submit your first and last name; the other fields (country, state, message) are optional]

Woohoo! Here's hoping everything is still looking good in January...when NASA takes a look at the mission's progress again

November 1 has come and gone, but you can still submit your name for Glory.

http://polls.nasa.gov/utilities/sendtospace/jsp/sendName.jsp

123,000 names and counting...

LRO will be launched on an Atlas 5...which is built by Lockheed Martin.

Unless by everybody you mean United Launch Alliance itself, in general.

Fermi... Sounds like the last name of the lead singer of the music group, Black Eyed Peas (Fergie).

I'm assuming some of you are hip to pop culture as well

NASA TV showed this image of the Panorama. If that's the official, 'complete' version... Then I guess I don't have to worry about replacing the 8X10 I made from the Pan that James did.

Meh, you know that a quarter of a billion of those names would be by one person who had "some" free time on his hands...

I dunno. I think they're getting greedy and trying to get to 2 million names

That, and if the launch DOES slip to February of next year, they'll probably extend the deadline a lot longer...like to, say, November (the deadline for the Kepler mission, which would also launch in Feb. of 2009)

Thanks for work, James. This image is now hangin' on my wall...

Photohopped the robotic arm scoop out in this pic