Plaster Georgia Tech / MIT's unmanned spacecraft with logos, text

If there's anything left to accomplish after creating autonomous UAVs and cramming optical circuitry on a silicon chip, it's allowing tax paying citizens to pen their thoughts on an unmanned spacecraft. In a joint initiative between Georgia Tech and MIT, the Your Name Into Space project aims to launch a small research satellite in 2010 into Earth's orbit, and the technology on board will purportedly "help pave the way for humankind to explore our solar system." Folks who throw their name, slogan, logo, or snarky catchphrases onto the craft can expect photographs of their adornment "with the Earth in the background" while it's orbiting space, and if your piece of textual glory lands on a segment that will be returning to Earth, it's all yours upon landing. So if you're looking to splurge a little this year on a bit of tax deductible fun, you can put nearly anything on this forthcoming machine for $35 to $250 per square centimeter, depending on location.

[Via MAKE]

[kyle90 @ Feb 15th 2007 2:37PM]

"Stuck in spaceship factory, send help"

[iptydafu @ Feb 15th 2007 3:25PM]

You figure it'd be cool enough in space, already; you wouldn't need a breeze.

[Jypson @ Feb 15th 2007 3:26PM]

I've never seen a better way to donate for some tax breaks. I'll be sure to get a piece of this one.

[NovaLand @ Feb 15th 2007 3:31PM]

...And then the aliens comes down to earth and wonder who this guys are that sent a bomb to their planet with some names and text on it and wants to alien-probe whoever those ppl are.

[Paul @ Feb 15th 2007 3:35PM]

Makes me wonder where those $35 per cm spots are... Inside the thruster, under the heat shielding... hehe.

however, I think it would be pretty sweet to get a piece of it after it came back to earth.

[JON BLAST @ Feb 15th 2007 3:51PM]

please god someone front the cash so a Goatse is on the spacecraft

[jeff @ Feb 15th 2007 3:55PM]

oh god, do we really need more space garbage?

[Todd @ Feb 15th 2007 4:04PM]

I would use the same adjective for this Georgia Tech project, as I do to describe the "Cable Television Excellence Awards" - pointless

[mj @ Feb 15th 2007 4:28PM]

Top ten list of satellite slogans:
10. All your base are belong to us
9. PS3 4R3 T3H 5UXXOR$!!!
8. I brake for Uranus
7. Hello, I am Ugibe Arizaba of Nigeria and I need cash for legal fees to free the estate of the deposed former leader.
6. DO YOU HEAR ME NOW?
5. From the east coast
To the west coast
Down the Dixie Highway
Back home
This is our country
4. I had Anne Nicole Smith's child.
3. I (heart) Hubble.
2. Certified 802.11n-draft compliant
1. Microsoft Windows Vista Embedded Orbital Edition Upgrade

[John @ Feb 15th 2007 4:57PM]

I'm so getting a Mooninite logo.

[Ahmed @ Feb 15th 2007 10:55PM]

ugly ceiling fan.

[duvet-dayz @ Feb 16th 2007 12:13PM]

We had a bit of longer story on that last November. At that time most of the ad space was still available.

Have a look at:
http://www.duvet-dayz.com/archives/2006/11/03/123/

Anyway we hope its going to work out for the students at MIT and GeorgiaTech and they get a good amount of extra money together.