From: wecooks@ix.netcom.com
Subject: fly with space cassini
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:38:43 -0800
From> Gleason Sackman <gleason@rrnet.com> From> "Classroom Connect Mailing List" <crcmail@205.246.90.10> From> Tim McLain <tmc@classroom.net> Subject> Fly yours and your student's names on a NASA spacecraft To fly your name, simply mail a plain postcard with your signatures on the non-address side to: Cassini Program Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 Sorry, no E-mail can be accepted. Here is how it works: Your signature will be scanned from the postcard and stored on a CD-ROM (or newer digital storage medium). The CD-ROM will be placed inside the new Cassini spacecraft, and your signature (along with many others) will be flown on a deep-space journey, with plans to go into orbit around the ringed-planet Saturn in the next decade. The Planetary Society will be helping us Cassini folks by sorting through the incoming mail to find out where it's coming from, and by also scanning the signatures into digital form for later transfer to the flight CD-ROM. Postcards will be accepted until January 1, 1997, or until the CD-ROM is full. Notification will appear when postcards can no longer be accepted. Confirmation that your signature has made it onto the CD-ROM can only be provided if you enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope along with your signature card. It's that simple. In fact, you can even have your friends and family members/students can all sign the same postcard. It is both fun and personally exciting to imagine one's signature aboard a large robot craft bound for another planet. You can be proud to be a member of a society that has made this possible by its quest to explore and by its pursuit of new knowledge. For more information, link to this Web address: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/MoreInfo/flyname.html The Classroom Connect Mailing List is a free service run by the editorial staff of Classroom Connect. An archive of Classroom Connect List DIGESTS is online: http://www.classroom.net/classroom/maillist.html