Houston – NASA is inviting people to send their names to the surface of the Moon aboard the agency’s first robotic lunar rover, VIPER - short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover.
The rover will embark on a mission to the lunar South Pole to unravel the mysteries of the Moon’s water and better understand the environment where NASA plans to land under its Artemis program.
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Here’s how to submit your name
- To add your name, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-viper
- NASA will accept names received before 10:59 p.m. CST, March 15.
- The site also enables participants to create and download a virtual souvenir - a boarding pass to the VIPER mission featuring their name - to commemorate the experience.
This campaign is like other NASA projects that have enabled tens of millions of people to send their names to ride along with Artemis I, several Mars spacecraft, and the agency’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission. It draws from the agency’s long tradition of shipping inspirational messages on spacecraft that have explored our solar system and beyond. In June, NASA invited the public to sign a poem that would fly aboard the Europa Clipper.
In late 2024, Astrobotic Technologies’ Griffin Mission One is scheduled to deliver VIPER to the lunar surface after launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.