Send Your Name To Jupiter's Icy Moon, Via NASA's Europa Spacecraft

The "Message in a Bottle" project involves engraving people's names on the Europa Clipper spacecraft.

NASA is offering people with the opportunity to send their names billions of kilometers into space on its next mission to Jupiter. Names submitted by the end of 2023 will be included on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, anticipated to enter Jupiter's orbit in 2030. 

The "Message in a Bottle" project involves engraving people's names on the Europa Clipper spacecraft. Members of the public are encouraged to submit their names at no cost. "Message in a Bottle" draws from NASA's long tradition of shipping inspirational messages on spacecraft that have explored our solar system and beyond. 

Urging people to send their names, NASA posted on Instagram and wrote, "Need a last-minute gift? Send their name to space! We're putting names onto our Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km) to study the ocean moon of Jupiter you see here, but you have to sign up by Dec. 31, 2023."