July 17 - Aug. 5, 2020
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Feb. 18, 2021
Jezero Crater, Mars
At least one Mars year (about 687 Earth days)
Submit your name by Sept. 30, 2019, 11:59 p.m. ET, and fly along!
NASA Invites Public to Submit Names to Fly Aboard Next Mars Rover
All Aboard for Mars 2020: Members of the public who want to send their name to Mars on NASA's next rover mission to the Red Planet (Mars 2020) can get a souvenir boarding pass and their names stenciled on chips to be affixed to the rover.
Sign up at go.nasa.gov/Mars2020Pass.
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Although it will be years before the first humans set foot on Mars, NASA is giving the public an opportunity to send their names — stenciled on chips — to the Red Planet with NASA's Mars 2020 rover, which represents the initial leg of humanity’s first round trip to another planet. The rover is scheduled to launch as early as July 2020, with the spacecraft expected to touch down on Mars in February 2021.
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