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Send your name to the Red Planet on NASA's Mars 2020 Rover

FILE PHOTO: NASA'S Curiosity Mars Rover has done its mission on the Red Planet. Mars 2020 Rover will soon be launching and you can be on the trip, at least in name only, but the deadline is looming.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via Getty Images

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via Getty Images

FILE PHOTO: NASA'S Curiosity Mars Rover has done its mission on the Red Planet. Mars 2020 Rover will soon be launching and you can be on the trip, at least in name only, but the deadline is looming.
By Kelly Healey, WFTV.com
Sept 30, 2019

NASA's Mars 2020 Rover is heading to the Red Planet and Sept. 30 is the last day to submit your name to fly along.

ExploreTo date, more than 10 million people have submitted their names.

The Rover will launch on its seven-month journey in July 2020.

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People have until 11:59 p.m. Monday to submit their names.

SIGN UP: Send your name to Mars

In 2017, thousands signed up for the chance to add their names to a silicon microchip onboard NASA's InSIght Lander.

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