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tightarse on 21/08/2015 - 11:29 mars.nasa.gov (4627 clicks)

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If you’ve never participated in Send Your Name before, scroll down to the New Flyer section. You can enter your name & country and submit it to our site to see your boarding pass. If you’d like to join our “Frequent Flyer Program” and receive a notification when the next mission is coming, you can add your email to the form.

If you sent your name on the Orion spacecraft’s first test flight in 2014, and have a Frequent Flyer account (which means you included your email at the time), scroll down to the Frequent Flyer section. Enter your name (exactly as you entered it in 2014) and email (the same one you used in 2014) and you’ll be taken to your Frequent Flyers page which will allow you to receive your InSight boarding pass, and track your miles from all the missions you’ve joined.

All submitted names are reviewed, approved and then etched onto a microchip which is sent aboard the spacecraft and journeys to Mars. Here is a picture of the chip that flew on the first test flight of the Orion spacecraft with 1.3 million names inscribed.

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  • nocure on 21/08/2015 - 11:32
    +8

    This is one small step for man.
    One giant leap for planetarse.

  • batrarobin on 21/08/2015 - 11:33
    +20

    I will ask before jv asks:

    What's the normal price?

  • Looking4Bargians on 21/08/2015 - 11:40

    Scored one…

  • ahly92 on 21/08/2015 - 11:44
    +1

    every planet needs one!
    http://mars.nasa.gov/layout/embed/image/embedcodesnm.cfm?pid…

  • fruit on 21/08/2015 - 11:46
    +4

    Forums

    • tightarse on 21/08/2015 - 11:48

      Mods call, but last one remained a deal.

    • easternculture on 21/08/2015 - 13:25

      technically belongs here https://www.ozbargain.com.au/forum/30381 as its always been a freebie

      • twocsies on 21/08/2015 - 14:56
        -1

        It was not a freebie until NASA announced this new mission. And it will no longer be a freebie after the names are inscribed.

    • jelko on 21/08/2015 - 14:35
      -6

      What benefit does one get from having your name on a thumbnail sized object 140 million kilometres away? What sort of person would find enjoyment from that? Do you think that in 500 years from now when humans are inhabiting Mars that this object will be displayed in a museum and that your great-great-great-(x20) grandchildren will see it and say "I knew this person! - This cheapskate couldn't wasn't able to leave a real lasting legacy but here is his name along with 1.5 other million losers. How wonderful!"

      • sane on 21/08/2015 - 15:25
        +4

        You're a bundle of laughs aren't you?

        Same reason I guess why people have gravestones in the first place - something of you continues long after you are dead, and in such a location that it's not going to get bulldozed for a shopping mall.

        As such why wouldn't you take the 10 seconds and $0 it requires to do it?

      • brotherfranciz on 21/08/2015 - 21:37
        +2

        To create history. To make you appreciate how far humanity has come. To make you dream about how far humanity can go. To make you marvel at the wonders of the universe.

        I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, it's not really about MY name being etched onto a microchip. It's about what the mission represents/signifies. I want to be a part of it. It is a very human need to want to be a part of something important and meaningful.

  • ShipShapeRC on 21/08/2015 - 11:56
    +15

    I put my name on a Nasa rover many years ago. It was one that went splat rather than landing, so my name is in lots of little pieces floating around mars already.

    • RJK on 21/08/2015 - 20:15

      Not so ship shape then…

  • snvl on 21/08/2015 - 12:10
    +22

    will we get SPAM emails from aliens?

    • ProjectZero on 21/08/2015 - 12:14
      +3

      Dunno, but you'll probably be one of the first to be incinerated by aliens for ruining their environment with a micro chip with your name on it. lol

    • ghostdom on 21/08/2015 - 14:00

      Maybe some special deals from allienbargain?

  • bargainslut on 21/08/2015 - 12:20
    +2

    This would be heaps better If I could nominate people to be in the shuttle. By the way, what are the dimensions of the spacecraft?

    • roguescholar on 21/08/2015 - 12:33

      Seeya later alligator…

      But I don't wanna go

      Oh well, you got nomimated.

      • bargainslut on 21/08/2015 - 12:49

        Damn it, I walked right into that one.

    • Bren20 on 21/08/2015 - 14:05
      +5

      Under normal operations it is 3 dimensions but it could be 10-26 dimensions if it encounters a black hole.

      • bargainslut on 21/08/2015 - 17:26
        +1

        Excellent, don't forget the 2.75% with cash rewards as well. Pushes us up to 28:)

  • zealmax on 21/08/2015 - 12:24
    +5

    I don't want aliens knowing my identity.

    • imcold on 21/08/2015 - 12:31
      +4

      I on the other hand don't want to aliens to know my existence.. so i will be safe from their probing.

    • humdogg on 21/08/2015 - 12:37
      +3

      yes y'all regret this when they probe you.

    • JayM on 21/08/2015 - 13:30
      +1

      No one really believes that the A in ASIO stands for Australian? That's just a cover-up for the real meaning - Alien.

      dun dun dun……

      • smartazz104 on 21/08/2015 - 14:43
        +1

        Phew, for a second I thought it referred to where the probe goes…

  • [Deactivated] on 21/08/2015 - 12:39
    +4

    Oh great idea, little green data miners will have my details. You've never had spam until you've had Martian spam.

    • RJK on 21/08/2015 - 20:16

      Martian viagra - not even once.

  • susmind on 21/08/2015 - 12:40

    Since atoms get reused & dispersed, what's the chance that an atom from one of my farts when I was a baby has already gone to Mars ?

    • jobski on 21/08/2015 - 13:23

      Go there and smell it.

    • BartholemewH on 21/08/2015 - 15:12
      +2

      Unless you fart at an extremely high velocity, probably zero.

  • [Deactivated] on 21/08/2015 - 12:44
    +4

    My name is Deez Nuts

  • cash8 on 21/08/2015 - 12:54
    +2

    Cant help but wonder if this is some sort of government conspiracy

  • SmiTTy on 21/08/2015 - 12:58

    isnt anyone concerned about privacy? I dont want some martian stealing my personal details!

  • Phreakuency on 21/08/2015 - 12:58
    +4

    I registered as Douglas Quaid.

  • Pootie Tang on 21/08/2015 - 12:59
    +2

    Seymour Butts

  • altomic on 21/08/2015 - 13:31
    +7

    Meanwhile, not to be out done, Australia's equivalent of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (unfortunately known as Australian National Aeronautical League) is offering the following freebie:

    Send Your Name to Broadmeadows.

    • ahly92 on 22/08/2015 - 13:12

      At least it will real

  • GregFiona on 21/08/2015 - 13:34

    Can you use a fake details? :P
    P.S. I used a fake name (Aris) and location(Toronto/VPN). I feel much safer now :)

    • jimmej on 21/08/2015 - 13:40

      Why not Mr Oz Bargain?

    • ghostdom on 21/08/2015 - 14:05

      your boarding pass will be rejected.

      All submitted names are reviewed, approved.. you know what that means…

  • JayM on 21/08/2015 - 13:38
    +1

    You have earned: 297,865,305 points from your Orion test and this new one. Wonder if I can get them to transfer that amount to my Qantas frequent flyer balance.

  • Jad on 21/08/2015 - 14:05
    +3

    Get your (tight)arse to Mars!

  • GunnerMcDagget on 21/08/2015 - 14:13
    +3

    This would be the perfect opportunity to give Martians some prank names.

    "We seek the one who threw their litter on our planet. A Mr 'I P Freely'"

  • Garagesale on 21/08/2015 - 14:54

    Give the Martians a hotlist for when they invade.

  • Iqs on 21/08/2015 - 15:02
    +3

    Tell me just ONE benefit of doing this. I mean, martians could not even read the alphabet. So come on guys, think before you act. This is not a bargain.

  • [Deactivated] on 21/08/2015 - 15:32
    -1

    Benefit ? for kids and adults that are space enthusiast or even just dreamers, to be even just the smallest tiniest part of something that is historical and amazing. but i suppose most people have little to no imagination anymore or value for things that have no actual monetary value. My names going again. Not a bargain, but a freebie? at least more interesting than rushing out to buy something for few dollars off that you don't even need or knew you wanted. Thanks for posting.

    • susmind on 22/08/2015 - 01:22
      +2

      All humans are dreamers, they haves brains with thinking power enough to imagine realities inside their own heads.
      I was a "humans in space" enthusiast, until I saw the 2008 Imax international space station film.
      Which proved to me humans are just like hopeless 100% mollycoddled babies when in space.
      We are planetary creatures & we cannot thrive n survive in space, no matter now much our imaginations imagine we we could do so.

      Us Ozbargainers always value things that have no actual monetary value if they are cheaper than otherwise
      but this is considered to be a cheap shot by some.

      My human existence is go for change, which is the one constant of the universe and includes the extinction of carbon based
      lifeforms(considering that their time is almost up) & the future biodiversity of the at present barren solar system.

  • Clementt on 21/08/2015 - 16:20
    +2

    So after we started polluting earth, now we going to pollute MARS with our names.. Nice!
    Hope the aliens found my name and pick me up from Earth..

  • sellingoutsoon on 21/08/2015 - 16:54
    +1

    Sorry @tightarse — my eyes are pretty sore from reading a screen all day — and I honestly thought your post said: FREE: Send your arse to Mars". Yes, really.

  • hal9000 on 21/08/2015 - 17:21
    +4

    nice try NSA.

  • DEvok on 21/08/2015 - 17:27
    +1

    Let's Ozbaragin this guys, should be easy!

  • bargainslut on 21/08/2015 - 17:27

    Tightmars to arse via Uranus

  • Fishfinger on 21/08/2015 - 18:20

    This is how the aliens pick who to abduct..

  • ozbargained on 21/08/2015 - 21:04
    +1

    gimmick much?

  • cantstanzya on 21/08/2015 - 21:26
    +1

    Aliens find it and kill those people first

  • wuddie on 21/08/2015 - 22:23
    +1

    Nice try NSA!

  • snajper on 22/08/2015 - 06:51

    Naaaa….been there …done that

  • Ezy on 22/08/2015 - 09:11

    Well we already have millions of pieces of space junk. What's the harm in a few more? I doubt this will come back to bite us.
    http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.code…

    • spartan17 on 22/08/2015 - 14:07
      -1

      This isn't going to end up there, it's going to land on Mars. And that picture is misleading, all the space junk shown in it is thousands of times smaller then the picture suggests.

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