Want your name on the sun? NASA calls for applications
New Delhi : All those who want their name to be placed on boiling sun can send their request to NASA till April last week.
NASA has invited online applications from across the world in which people can submit their names to be placed on a microchip aboard its historic solar probe launching this summer.
"This probe will journey to a region humanity has never explored before," said Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
"This mission will answer questions scientists have sought to uncover for more than six decades," he added.
Star Trek fame’s William Shatner has already signed up to his name on the chip.
"The first-ever spacecraft to the sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, will launch this year on a course to orbit through the heat of our star’s corona, where temperatures are greater than 1 million degrees," Shatner said in a new NASA video about this public-outreach effort.
"The spacecraft will also carry my name to the sun, and your name, and the names of everyone who wants to join this voyage of extreme exploration."
If you also want your name to be placed on the sun, all you need to do is visit NASA's "Hot Ticket" site through April 27.
The Parker solar probe mission is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 31. The project has been made on a whopping budget of $1.5 billion.
