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Topic: 'Send Your Name' chips. Where are they now?
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SpaceDust
Member Posts: 129
From: Louisville, KY
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 07-15-2026 07:15 AM
  
I've been thinking about the "Send Your Name" chips with the millions of names of people from around the world on them that were flown on various space missions. Where are they today? If someone wanted to see one that has returned to Earth and wanted to look up their name, where would they go? I've had my name on the last three shuttle missions, Artemis I and II, Orion Exploration Flight Test, OSIRIS-REx, and the StarDust mission. Where are these chips now? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 56799
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-15-2026 10:03 AM
With regards to Stardust, it carried two identical sets of microchips etched with the names of over a million people who responded to a "Send Your Name to a Comet" campaign and all of the names on the Vietnam Memorial Wall. One microchip set came back in the return capsule. The other remains on Stardust in space.The chip on Earth is now displayed alongside the return capsule in the Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.  | |
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