One for the kids in us Hitch a FREE round trip to the asteroid Bennu

DERICKOO · 23-01-2014 2:01am #1

On the Osris-Rex spacecraft. Well... maybe just your name on a microchip. This is just for fun guys and girls will give the Kids something to talk about. We are only young once. "Well some of us." Got the January blues? Fed up with the Apollo-ing weather? Diet gone wrong? Put down that Mars bar, suck yourself out of that black hole and take yourself to Bennu - our favourite Asteroid (the others had no atmosphere). Kids will love it (let's face it, adults too!) It's just out of this world. Nasa is sending a spacecraft (Osiris-Rex) to the asteroid Bennu in 2016 to collect a sample of its surface. You can get your name etched on a microchip that's carried on it. The robotic mission (and your name) will spend more than two years near the 1,760ft-wide asteroid. Just visit The Planetary Society, fill in your details and print out your certificate (which will have your unique number on it). You can go back later to print it if you prefer. You'd be a luna-tick not to sign up. http://www.planetary.org/get-involved/messages/bennu/ If you're on Twitter or Facebook, make sure you 'follow' or 'like' the mission (you'll see the option when you enter your details). You'll get updates on where your name is in space from launch until the craft returns to Earth in 2023. Wake up the kid in you do it. DERICKOO