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Putting names on spacecraft
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post Jun 20 2008, 08:07 PM
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I'm trying to compile a list of all the spacecraft onto which the public were able to place their name via some digital format.

Here's what I've got so far (Please let me know if any are incorrect)

Deep Impact
New Horizons
Phoenix
LRO
Kepler
Cassini
MERs
SELENE

Are there any more I've missed?


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post Jun 20 2008, 09:06 PM
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ISTR my name being on MPL, as well. Wherever it ended up.

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post Jun 21 2008, 01:47 PM
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I think these were missed:

Dawn, a chip.
Huygens, a CD, separate from the CD Cassini carried.
Possibly, something on Beagle II.

My own list of what I knew made for another forum:

Cassini http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/96/cdsign.html
Dawn http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/feature_stories/s...mes_install.asp
Deep Impact http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/sendyourname/index.html (not maintained)
Kepler http://www.seti.org/kepler/names/
LRO Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/index.php
Mars Polar Lander (failed) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/98/m98integ.html
MER Mars Exploration Rover (Spirit and Opportunity) http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2003/namequery.htm
New Horizons http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ecard/certificate/searchName.php
Phoenix http://planetary.org/special/fromearth/phoenix
SELENE (Kaguya) http://www.jaxa.jp/pr/event/selene/index_e.html
Stardust http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/

I think the Huygens probe had a CD, separate from Cassini's CD. UMSF: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/lofiver...x.php/t263.html

The cancelled 2001 Mars Lander did (and the names were transferred to the MER mission).

More about messages: Wall Street Journal: Message in a Bottle

A Portrait of Humanity (PDF) describes the cancelled Huygens diamond disk and offers thoughts about messages to spacecraft discoverers, by Jon Lomberg, who designed the Voyager record.

Beagle II carried something, I think. Anyone recall?

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