The initiative is part of the agency’s Artemis I unmanned mission, the first mission in the Artemis program to eventually return astronauts to the moon.
It’s free to add your name to a flash drive, NASA spokeswoman Catherine Hambleton said.
“We hope this is a way to excite people, uplift them and inspire the next generation, the generation of Artemis,” Hambleton said.
For this particular mission, a flash drive should be packed onto the spacecraft about a month before the launch date, which will determine how long NASA will accept applications, she said.
No launch date has been announced, Hambleton said, but the space agency is setting a date in May or June. She added that NASA plans to announce more launch date details in the coming weeks.
Since applications opened earlier this month, NASA has already received more than a million nominations, according to Hambleton.
“We hope to maintain this momentum from just over a week ago (…) to gather more names and generate more enthusiasm from people around the world who will be on the move by default,” he said. she declared.
Artémis I. mission
This first mission of the Artemis program, which will carry no humans, will test NASA’s latest deep space exploration systems.
The Orion spacecraft will launch on the world’s most powerful rocket from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Once the spacecraft completes its orbit around the Moon, Orion will attempt to land safely off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.
When it returned to Earth, the spacecraft had traveled more than 1.3 million miles (2,092,147 kilometers), according to NASA.
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