{"id":188,"date":"2021-02-27T13:55:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slowergram.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2021-02-27T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T14:02:36","slug":"sending-my-daughter-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slowergram.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/27\/sending-my-daughter-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending my daughter to Mars…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m pretty sure that’s an idea most parents have during difficult times with their kids (homeschooling I’m looking at you!) However on this occasion it’s a good thing, I actually sent my daughter to Mars, but forgot, oops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously I didn’t send her in person, but a few years ago NASA gave people the opportunity to send names of explorers into space on the next mission to Mars. Being a newish dad at the time, with a keen interest in space, I filled out the forms in her name and then forgot all about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week with the fantastic news of the successful landing of the Perseverance rover and the accompanying news stories, this one<\/a> in particular triggered a memory, and remembered I had applied to send my daughter’s name to Mars too, long before the rover had been named Perseverance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I managed to login and retrieve her “boarding pass” to show her, as well as the three silicon squares her name was etched onto. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She couldn’t believe what she was hearing, her name had been sent millions of miles to a different planet, pretty hard for me as an adult to get my head around, let alone a 6 year old. We have been looking up all things, space and Mars quite a bit of this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well done NASA, it’s things like this that really get children’s imagination’s whiring. We’re already signed up for the next flight, due for launch 2026. https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/participate\/send-your-name\/future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m pretty sure that’s an idea most parents have during difficult times with their kids (homeschooling I’m looking at you!) However on this occasion it’s a good thing, I actually sent my daughter to Mars, but forgot, oops. Obviously I didn’t send her in person, but a few years ago Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowergram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowergram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowergram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowergram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowergram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowergram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slowergram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowergram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slowergram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}