Now Indian Citizens Can Have Their Name Plates Sent To The Moon, Fo...

Here's some good news for Indians who want their names to live for posterity, have your name plate sent onto the moon for a price!

An Indian company, TeamIndus, has announced that it will get the names of donors micro-engraved on a small-sized aluminium object, which will be placed on the lunar surface when its lander descends on the moon on the 26th of January 2018, which is also India's Republic day!

And the cost? Just Rs 500/-, which is around $7.34 only!

A close shot of the moon showing the craters in great details [Photo Sources]

Part of a crowd-funding effort, the name plaque initiative is expected to raise a substantial amount for the company which has planned the mission for December 28 this year on the PSLV rocket, and will travel the 384,000 kilometers from earth to make a soft landing on the moon on January 26, 2018.

And the plan is to land the lunar-craft in a large dusty plain on the sun-lit lunar belly, the Mare Imbrium, which in Latin stands for the "Sea of Showers".

But the main part of the article which stood out for me was this statement by Sheelika Ravishankar, Jedi Master - Marketing and Outreach, of the Bengaluru-based start-up, that

Future moon-combers may find other artifacts too: US, Soviet, European and Japanese spacecraft debris; rovers that died, such as the latest, China’s Chang’e-3. In 1971, astronauts of Apollo-15 left an unauthorized statuette of the ‘fallen astronaut’. Apollo-14’s moon-walker Alan Shepard teed off a few golf balls. And there are flags, plaques, a silver pin and more.

So if any Indian wants to add to that, then he can easily have his name included, that too on an aluminium plate which will most probably last forever!

How cool is that?

‘Indian’s moonshot’: The name plaque is part of a crowd-funding effort by TeamIndus.

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Now Indian Citizens Can Have Their Name Plates Sent To The Moon, For A Price!