Your name aboard IKAROS: last chance!

We spoke to you about this in January (see this article), and now the closing date is fast approaching: Monday 22 March it will be too late... JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency, is offering to engrave your name and a small message on a DVD-ROM which is to be carried by the solar sail IKAROS (launched with the Akatsuki probe to Venus on 17 May 2010). And it’s free!

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Published on 12 March 2010

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