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Want to send your names to Mars? Here's how you need to Sign up

Would you like to imprint your name on the surface of the Red Planet? NASA is giving you a chance to send your name to Mars via its InSight lander, scheduled for the next year.

Want to send your names to Mars? Here is how you need to Sign up

The interested candidates can submit their names on NASA's website, and the last date for submission is November 1.

However, this is not the first time that NASA has done such type of invitation. In 2015, NASA reached out to the general public and to invited people to submit their names which would be then put on a microchip on board the spacecraft designed for its Insight mission to Mars.

At that time around 827,000 people enrolled their names to be added on a microchip. Again in 2014 also NASA offered this participation aboard its Orion spacecraft for 1.38 million people.

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