Send your name to Venus

 

JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency is to send the Akatsuki probe to Venus in 2010. You can take advantage of this operation and place your name and a short message in orbit around the Earth’s sister planet! Both names and messages are to be engraved on aluminium plates affixed to the probe. Don’t delay, you only have until 10 January 2010.

Akatsuki mission

Specific Internet page for sending your name and message


Published on 29 December 2009

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