Send your name to Jupiter onboard NASA's Clipper Spacecraft - Free

Join the mission and have your name engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft as it travels 1.8 billion miles to explore Europa, an ocean world that may support life. Sign your name today to the Message in a Bottle.

Departing next October, your name should arrive by 2030

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Send Your Name to Europa
NASA’s Message in a Bottle campaign invites people around the world to sign their names to a poem written by the U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. The poem connects the two water worlds — Earth, yearning to reach out and understand what makes a world habitable, and Europa, waiting with secrets yet to be explored. The campaign is a special collaboration, uniting art and science, by NASA, the U.S. Poet Laureate, and the Library of Congress.

The poem is engraved on NASA’s robotic Europa Clipper spacecraft, along with participants' names that will be etched onto microchips mounted on the spacecraft. Together, the poem and names will travel 1.8 billion miles on Europa Clipper’s voyage to the Jupiter system. Europa Clipper is set to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in October 2024, and by 2030, it will be in orbit around Jupiter. Over several years, it will conduct dozens of flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, gathering detailed measurements to determine if the moon has conditions suitable for life.


A tantalum metal vault plate on the Europa Clipper spacecraft will be engraved with “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa” by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. This graphic illustrates the location of the vault plate, seen here as a golden triangle, on the Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Message in a Bottle FAQs

• Why are you hosting this opportunity?
  There’s a lot of excitement surrounding NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, which will launch in October 2024. The Europa Clipper mission has an important goal: to determine whether Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has the conditions suitable for life.
  
  Asking big questions is a part of the human experience. This opportunity celebrates the similarities between art and science. Both poetry and planetary science ask big questions about the universe, and our place within it.
  
• Will my name fly on the Europa Clipper spacecraft?
  Yes, all submitted names are reviewed, and approved names are etched onto microchips. The microchips will be mounted on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will orbit Jupiter and make multiple flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
  
• What does submitting my name do?
  All submitted names are reviewed, and approved names are etched onto microchips. The microchips will be mounted on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will orbit Jupiter and make multiple flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.

• How do I get my Message in a Bottle customized artwork?
  You can retrieve and share your customized artwork on the check in page.

• Why can't I find my name?
  When searching for your name, you must type your name exactly as you submitted it (first name, last name) and use the same email with that name combination. Try variations on your name. Some people include a middle initial.

• I accidentally wrote my name wrong. What should I do?
  The quickest solution is to resubmit your name with the correction. We can work to correct submissions if you’d like to use the feedback form, but due to the volume of submissions, corrections can take some time to accommodate.

• Where can I see a list of names being sent on the Europa Clipper spacecraft?
  For privacy reasons, we do not publish the final list of names.

• I submitted my name on a previous NASA mission, like Mars missions and the Artemis mission. Are these campaigns connected?
  The Message in a Bottle opportunity is separate from Mars and Artemis “send your name” opportunities. The campaigns are unique to each mission.

• Who sees my name?
  All names are reviewed by a team of people at NASA.

• How is my email address used?
  Your email is only used to allow you to track your participation, and to receive notifications related to “Message in a Bottle” and mission events, such as launch and Jupiter orbit insertion. See our Privacy Policy Statement for more information.

• When does this opportunity close?
  This opportunity will close in December 2023. After the opportunity closes, participants’ names will be etched onto microchips, and those microchips will be mounted on the Europa Clipper spacecraft.