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NASA is offering everyone to send their works of art on the asteroid

NASA предлагает желающим отправить свои произведения искусства на астероид

The national Board of the USA on Aeronautics and space research (NASA) invites all interested persons to send “part of himself” in space travel, sending your own art work on the asteroid project OSIRIS-REx.

Program OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) includes sending the probe to the asteroid Bennu is a small near-earth asteroid, a part of the group of Apollo. The space object has an average diameter of about 510 meters, its period of rotation around the Sun is approximately 1.2 years.

NASA предлагает желающим отправить свои произведения искусства на астероид

Within the project OSIRIS-REx to organize an action We The Explorers. Anyone can send to the asteroid, drawing, photo, poem, song, short video or any other work of art. All collected work will be written to the drive, which NASA placed on Board of the spacecraft. With instructions for providing files can be found here.

Let’s add that the main objective of OSIRIS-REx is the sampling of soil from the surface Benn, and their delivery to Earth. The station is scheduled for September this year. Before the asteroid probe should be reached in 2019, and his return to Earth is scheduled for 2023.

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