Nation & World News
Nation & World News

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.

>> Read more trending news

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.

About the Author

Kelly Healey, WFTV.com
More Stories

The Latest

A smoke trail from the Israeli Iron Dome air defense system streaks across the sky as it intercepts missiles launched during an Iranian attack, as seen from Haifa, Israel, early Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Credit: AP

Iranian missile barrage strikes Israel after deadline Trump announced for ceasefire passes

8m ago

Jrue Holiday being traded from Celtics to Trail Blazers, AP source says

25m ago

Township mechanics in South Africa unite to turbocharge their small businesses

32m ago

Featured

Apartment complex community members look at the stuffed animals, snacks and drinks that rest at the base of a basketball goal with balloons in memoriam of Ja’Nylen Greggs in Atlanta on Friday, June 20, 2025. The apartment complex community is mourning 12-year-old Greggs after he was killed in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting. (Abbey Cutrer / AJC)

Credit: abbey.cutrer@ajc.com

He went out to play. A drive-by shooting made him Atlanta’s youngest homicide this year.

An Atlanta neighborhood mourns a 12-year-old boy who died from gunfire.

‘You hope for peace’: Georgians grapple with fallout after Iran strike

Georgians and visitors to Atlanta interviewed Sunday in Buckhead expressed concerns about why President Trump ordered strikes on Iran and what will happen next.

Senate Republicans set up potential clash with House on ‘big, beautiful bill’

How does the Senate version of the tax and spending bill differ from the one that barely passed the house?