Matty in SPACE on NASA STARDUST

A long time ago I submitted my name on a NASA website so that it would be included on a chip attached to the STARDUST spacecraft.
My name was included in the list that made it onto the chips and it continues to be on the STARDUST spacecraft in the curation facility at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
But (and here’s the cool part) a second copy of that chip is mounted in the spacecraft body and will remain in space forever.  So technically my name is still floating around in space. How cool is that ?

More info here: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/namesb.html and here: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/faq.html

Matty Bakkeren

Matty has a passion for technology and a talent to communicate about it. He is currently employed at Intel and enjoys being up close to the latest technology every day. - All views written in these blogs are his own -

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